Aviation

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Aviation is part of the lifeblood of modern economies, moving people and goods around the nation and the globe. The American economy literally could not function without it and a tremendous collaborative effort of industry and government maintains the safest airspace in the world. But challenges remain as congestion and delays hinder airports and high-altitude traffic is guided by inefficient and old point-to-point, ground-based radar technology. At the same time, qualified workers needed to meet the global demands for air travel have grown increasingly scarce and new technologies like drones are challenging airline safety and security.

DOT General Counsel Letter to Senator Cruz re Phil Washington – March 9 2023

This is a PDF copy of a March 9, 2023 letter from Department of Transportation General Counsel John Putnam to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)...

FAA Under Fire For Recent Close Calls Between Planes

Jeff Davis explains to CNN the intricacies of the FAA, and what it means for fliers in 2023.

FAA Hearing Shows Contentious Opposition to Nominee

President Biden's nominee to run the Federal Aviation Administration, Phil Washington, came under intense criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz...

ETW Editorial: Release the OLC Opinion, ASAP

President Biden's nomination of Phil Washington to head the Federal Aviation Administration is taking criticism on two separate tracks....

New Report Urges Reform of Spectrum-Allocation Process

“While the immediate crisis was averted, it exposed critical and interrelated gaps and failures in the process and policies used for...

Filling Gaps in US Spectrum Allocation: Reforms for Collaborative Management

Electromagnetic spectrum is the range of radiation energy that carries everything from visible light to X-rays, microwaves, and gamma...

Phil Washington Will Finally Get A Hearing – But Will He Be Asked to Give Up Army Pension?

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation has finally scheduled a confirmation hearing for Phil Washington's nomination to run...

House T&I Holds Wide-Ranging Aviation Hearing

On Tuesday, February 7, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a broad hearing on aviation as a first step in the...

Senate Panel Looks At Last Christmas’s Southwest Meltdown

When Southwest Airlines was having its epic meltdown of flight cancelations during the peak Christmas 2022 flight period, Senate...

Biden May Call Out Airlines, Tout Infrastructure Funding at SOTU

Jeff Davis, senior fellow at think-tank Eno Center for Transportation, said that 2023 was already scheduled to be the “year of...

Guest Op-Ed: Increasingly Autonomous Flight and Operations: Airspace Integration Considerations

There is much interest in autonomous systems and their operations in the national airspace system. When it comes to autonomous systems,...

From Washington: President Biden’s Pick For New Chief Of Staff

President and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation and Brookings Metro Non-Resident Senior Fellow Robert Puentes discusses the current...

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