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February 12, 2026
by default is in the bill The FCC must tell the numerous partners who care about interference in aviation weather and defense what they are doing The Cruz Cantwell substitute includes key Cantwell improvements...identify other bands critical to federal missions that if deemed granted would endanger national defense safety of life or property and must exclude them Struck the narrow definition of national security leaving...system isn t the same risk as a 1 000 000 satellite mega constellation and systems critical to public safety and national defense must be protected No shot clocks or expedited processes take effect until the...
February 12, 2026
Transportation delivered the below opening statement at a hearing about the National Transportation Safety Board s NTSB final report on the January 29 2025 mid air collision near DCA Airport that took the...political system is supposed to work where the victims have to come and be the biggest advocates for safety that is certainly what the Colgan Air families have done So we certainly remember them today And...I know they will be following today s discussion very closely You have stood with us to make our aviation system safer including your support for the ROTOR Act which was critical in trying to push this...
February 12, 2026
Airlines flight and a U S Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people the National Transportation Safety Board NTSB recommended that aircraft operating in congested airspace be equipped with ADS B In and...New York We remember the 50 lives lost as we somberly meet to discuss another deadly aviation accident Aviation safety relies on the swiss cheese model to mitigate and manage risk Layers upon layers of human...just over one year ago that safety system failed three miles from here at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport For more than 15 years pilots controllers and reams of aviation data detected at least one...
February 12, 2026
Releases Home Newsroom Press Releases Print Commerce Committee Passes Legislation to Strengthen FAA s Safety Management System February 12 2026 WASHINGTON D C The U S Senate Commerce Science and Transportation...Science and Transportation and Senators Tammy Duckworth D Ill Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Space and Innovation Mark Warner D Va Ed Markey D Mass Jeanne Shaheen D N H Amy Klobuchar D Minn...effective FAA safety management system SMS to better predict manage and mitigate safety risks across the agency The NTSB has found that the FAA s weak oversight and failure to act on the safety data it had...
February 12, 2026
WASHINGTON D C In her opening remarks at today s Commerce Committee hearing on the National Transportation Safety Board s NTSB final report on the tragic mid air collision near DCA Senator Maria Cantwell D Wash...
February 5, 2026
Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation Tammy Duckworth D Ill Ranking Member of the aviation subcommittee and Edward Markey D Mass sent a letter to Department of Transportation DOT General...General Counsel Gregory Zerzan demanding information and accountability regarding Federal Aviation Administration FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford s refusal to comply with his ethics agreement and divest his shares...letter can be found below and HERE Mr Zerzan We request documents and information regarding Federal Aviation Administration FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford s lack of compliance with his ethics agreement and...
February 4, 2026
featuring testimony from Lars Moravy Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla Waymo s Chief Safety Officer Mauricio Pena Jeff Farrah Chief Executive Office for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association...Tesla s autopilot to hundreds of crashes including at least 13 fatal crashes and many more injuries Safety advocates have linked 65 fatalities to Tesla s automated technologies These tragedies have occurred...the Trump administration has tried to gut NHTSA the federal agency is responsible for ensuring the safety of vehicles He basically in efforts of DOGE lost 25 percent of their employees I would say at this...
February 4, 2026
Time to Pass the ROTOR Act February 4 2026 New op ed urges House passage of bipartisan bill making aviation safer WASHINGTON D C Senator Ted Cruz R Texas and Representative Bob Onder R MO published an op...passage of the Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform ROTOR Act a bipartisan airspace safety reform bill prompted by last year s fatal midair collision at Reagan National Airport Sen Cruz and...Onder stressed that the ROTOR Act would enact the key recommendation from the National Transportation Safety Board s investigative crash report require all aircraft in congested airspace to send and receive...
February 4, 2026
absence of clear AV standards from the federal automobile regulator the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and a current patchwork of state laws governing AVs has slowed their adoption as companies...be central to the future of roadways AVs are now providing mobility to the disabled improving auto safety and advancing technologies that have the potential to save millions of wasted hours in traffic but...it is unsafe Without federal oversight we risk a fragmented patchwork of state laws that undermine safety innovation and American competitiveness As we consider a surface transportation reauthorization bill...
February 4, 2026
of letting companies beta test on our roads with no guardrails However the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards were designed to regulate bumpers and car doors and seat belts This revolutionary technology...Transportation Committee warned that the Trump administration s gutting of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA will make it impossible for the agency to regulate autonomous vehicle technology...Tesla s autopilot to hundreds of crashes including at least 13 fatal crashes and many more injuries Safety advocates have linked 65 fatalities to Tesla s automated technologies Sen Cantwell sharply criticized...
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