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The Advisory Committee will be led by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will serve as the Designated Federal Official. </span></div><div style="color: #000000;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; color: #000000;" align="justify">Members on the Committee will work in partnership with the FAA to identify and propose actions to the FAA on how best to facilitate a resolution of issues affecting the efficiency and safety of integrating UAS into the NAS. </div><div style="color: #000000;"><br></div><div><div style="text-align: justify; color: #000000;" align="justify">Membership will be comprised of a cross-section of UAS stakeholders that represent the wide variety of UAS interests, including industry, government, research and academia, retail, technology, etc. RTCA will assist the FAA with the selection process, and final membership decisions will be made by the FAA. </div><div style="text-align: justify; color: #000000;" align="justify"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;">In<span style="color: #000000;">terested parties should visit</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"> the <a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0013Mvckx-heVcRZ0QNEWXI-pzJM_FEwQZAOj87Sfd7FEGRwA3dWwwiYSt9SwaD7KIbVwFIvXN33-PVbXuQYjKezyrz7nATMpr577Qyk3pghAXyDW9kgG8u8yZZPLcYI7rcXpcS8K0TFEcs9ocAFWsTXak3hvK70Tx4UtjKe9hEqpwyEyejpagon9c2WbcV1_UfdhWRAG6NSY3cGSCOugFk-T6l8TVl5CcR9psWTG3unBk=&c=70jFdM8BTS0UaCMaufwi3fuXVyZ6fyHYz0HqcgCkc3z-dmAJPhRvxw==&ch=N4JHIJPfdyJpXa_UuWqAc6oKSib_jf08olMn3eQZJJBiPJ4RjIl0tg==" target="_blank" color="color" ff="ff" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline">www.rtca.org</a> </span><span style="color: #000000;">for more details.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td class="ox-dc459a588e-TemplatePad" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td></tr><tr><td class="ox-dc459a588e-TemplatePad" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> </td></tr><tr><td class="ox-dc459a588e-TemplatePad" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><table class="ox-dc459a588e-BlockMargin mce-item-table" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 6px; border: 1px solid #000000;" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="ox-dc459a588e-content_LETTER.ox-dc459a588e-BLOCK12"><tbody><tr><td class="ox-dc459a588e-MainText" style="padding: 5px; color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left"><div style="font-size: 8pt;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 8pt;"><strong>About RTCA, Inc.</strong></p><div><div><br></div>RTCA is a private, not-for-profit association founded in 1935 as the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics. 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