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Administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration, overseeing aircraft certification and aviation safety regulation.
Six House Democrats asked the FAA on October 13 to pause SMART, its AI air traffic tool, 22 days after it went live at three Washington-area airports. The letter cannot block adoption, and the only case for slower rollout or higher vendor costs is Cryptopolitan's conditional one.
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Boeing won the Navy's $20 billion F/A-XX contract and now holds both US sixth-generation fighter programs. Investors have to judge whether a company still repairing its jetliner and space programs can build two new fighters on cost and on schedule.
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FAA safety experts ruled a 737 Max software glitch poses no safety concern, clearing a late obstacle to Boeing's Max 10 and its nearly 1,500 orders. Officials told Reuters approval could come as soon as later this month, with crews following an interim procedure until Boeing finishes a software fix.
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The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
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The Chaparral moved medical supplies, food and industrial gear for a week under air traffic control oversight, and the operational numbers a logistics buyer would need to plan a route around it have not been released.
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Elroy Air flew spare parts and water jugs out of a busy Louisiana rotorcraft field while controllers sequenced it among crewed traffic, which is a harder thing to arrange than the aircraft, and the FAA administrator put his name to it.
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