U.S. aerospace health in jeopardy
The Commission on the Future of the U.S.

The Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry vowed to keep the nine recommendations released in its November 18 final report from languishing somewhere within the vast federal bureaucracy. “We believe that people in the next century should see aerospace as something where anyone or anything can go anywhere, at any time,” said commission chairman Robert Walker. “That’s what we used as a framework in which to try to address how you get to that point.”

While the former congressman said the framework includes both commercial and military endeavors, vice chairman F. Whitten Peters opined that perhaps the most difficult issue the commission faced was how to get the federal government’s role unified across the executive and legislative branches so that programs provide for all of the core competencies needed in the civilian and military sectors.