President Obama announced that he will nominate Michael Huerta as FAA deputy administrator.
Huerta has his own consulting firm, which advises clients on transportation policy, technology and financing. Until April 2009, he was group president of the Transportation Solutions Group of Affiliated Computer Service (ACS), a technology services provider supporting transportation agencies worldwide.
Before joining ACS, he was a managing director with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002. From 1993 to 1998, he served in senior positions at DOT.
Huerta has a master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Riverside. He is currently chairman of the board of directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America and served as a member of President Obama's DOT transition team.
