Experts have long warned that U.S. National Critical Infrastructure such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, defense and other industries are vulnerable to cyberattacks form hostile governments and groups.

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Incredible as it may seem, however, in his recent, 126-page Statement of National Transportation Policy -- much of which was devoted to addressing the critical aviation-related infrastructure problems -- Secretary of Transportation Sam Skinner made but two passing references to the contribution tiltrotor technology could make to solving such problems.

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Unknown hackers, perhaps a world away, had inserted malicious software into the computer networks of private-sector companies that operate most of our transportation, water and other critical infrastructure systems.

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