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Or Rozen from Elbit Systems delivers a presentation on shifting from platform-driven to payload-driven systems during the first day of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International convention Monday in Las Vegas. (Sam Morris/Special to The Washington Times)

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Specialist Donald Himpele, foreground second left, resumes trading in AIG stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. The U.S. government says it plans to sell $4.5 billion in American International Group common stock, the latest effort to recoup taxpayer money spent on the largest bailout of the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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**FILE** Knight Capital specialists work Aug. 3, 2012, at their posts on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Associated Press)

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Visitors walk through the visitation room, including taking a look at one of the private visitation rooms, at the Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup, Md. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Nexen has an oil sands facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Nexen is being acquired by China National Offshore Oil Co. in a $15-billion deal that, if successful, will be China’s largest ever overseas acquisition. For Canadians, more drilling means more jobs and tax revenue. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 photo, trader Steven Kaplan, center, checks prices as he waits for shares of AIG to resume trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The rating agency Standard & Poor’s stunned the world a year ago by stripping the U.S. government of its prized AAA bond rating. A year later, S&P’s historic move looks like a non-event. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Richard Wolk buys fresh produce from Ching Thao at the Vineyard Farmers Market in California, a state that is leading the way in direct-sales markets. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, file photo, trader Steven Kaplan, center, checks prices as he waits for shares of AIG to resume trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The rating agency Standard & Poor’s stunned the world a year ago by stripping the U.S. government of its prized AAA bond rating. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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The Washington Nationals traded for Oakland A's catcher Kurt Suzuki on Friday afternoon, adding a veteran piece to their catching corps. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, photo, New York Stock Exchange Senior Compliance Associate Matthew Pizzo, an Air Force veteran who has law and business degrees, works in his office at the New York Stock Exchange. Pizzo had gone two years without work, until recently, as he is now finishing his first week of work at the exchange. U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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** FILE ** In this July 25, 2012, file photo, people looking for work talk at a Primerica job booth at a job fair in San Jose, Calif. U.S. hiring was likely sluggish in July for a fourth straight month, held back by slower economic growth and an uncertain outlook. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)