He became the department's Essex County resident engineer in January 2005, overseeing road and bridge projects and all DOT maintenancepersonnel in the county.
It is also possible to formalize position maintenance with personnel actions and an option of approvals, and also optionally track budget and cost information.
Ed Walby of Northup's High Altitude Long Endurance Systems Enterprise recently told Secure Freedom Radio, the Global Hawk requires fewer personnel for maintenance and operations.
The new plan also would also be in effect for the Christmas travel season, and White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said the Federal Aviation Administration was imposing a holiday moratorium on nonessential maintenance projects, allowing all FAA personnel and equipment to be focused on keeping flights on time.
Those include replacing management personnel, hiring more auditors in the maintenance program and setting up two maintenance technical teams, one in Atlanta and a second at Dulles International Airport.
Tech support personnel might have to go desk to desk to do fixes, or perform maintenance on e-mail servers that have become clogged with virus-generated messages.
The administration also has warned of long lines at airports as security personnel are furloughed, of teacher layoffs in some classrooms and adverse impacts on maintenance at the nation's parks.