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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday he's "confident" the technology issues at troubled Newark Liberty International Airport will be resolved by October.

"The (transportation) secretary has been very clear with me that we need to fix this, and we're fixing this now," Chris Rocheleau, the acting head of the FAA, told a House budget hearing Wednesday. "The second piece to that is the staffing. I think by October, we will be very healthy in there at staffing levels that we need."

The FAA transferred air traffic control over Newark to a Philadelphia facility last July from New York, where it was previously located, a move seen as controversial by many controllers and the union that represents them.

Rocheleau's remarks, before the House Appropriations subco

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