The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January

FAA chief says air traffic control towers will "never" reach full staffing under current system, calling it "chronically understaffed."

Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford said Wednesday that the agency lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees during the 43-day government shutdown. “We lost, I don’t know, 4-, 500 of our trainees that just sort of gave up during the lapse,” Bedford told the Senate aviation subcommittee during a hearing.

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration head Bryan Bedford said on Tuesday the agency is committing $6 billion by year-end on air traffic control telecom infrastructure and radar surveillance systems that will be deployed by the end of 2028.

Bryan Bedford and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy are rallying support for funds that they say will help move workloads to the cloud.

Last week, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, who previously served ‌as CEO of Republic, was in violation ​of his ‌ethics agreement after ‍he ⁠had not completed the sale of the shares despite agreeing to divest his holdings within 90 days of his confirmation in July.

The U.S. Justice Department said late on Wednesday that government employees were negligent in a fatal collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet on January 29 that killed 67 people near Reagan Washington National Airport,

A Democratic Senator says the head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise to do so as part of his ethics agreement.

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to cut flights across 40 major airports during the government shutdown earlier this year was necessary to protect the safety of the flying public, the head of agency told lawmakers.