U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that Russell \u201cChip\u201d Childs has been appointed Chair of the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC). Childs is President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyWest, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Childs, a current member of the NAC, replaces former Chair\nDavid Bronczek, who retired from FedEx Corporation. Childs will serve through\nthe current term of the NAC charter, which is June 8, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cChip\u2019s extensive experience in the aviation community will\nhelp the Advisory Committee in the ongoing discussion about maximizing NextGen\ncapabilities,\u201d said Secretary Elaine L. Chao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NAC provides advice to the FAA on NextGen investment\npriorities, National Airspace System performance metrics, technologies,\nequipage and deployment schedules. One of the NAC\u2019s primary objectives is to\nenhance operations in the Northeast Corridor, which is the most congested airspace\nin the country. Childs will lead discussions on how to manage mixed equipage in\naircraft communication, navigation and surveillance avionics to achieve success\nin the Northeast Corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that Russell \u201cChip\u201d Childs has been appointed Chair of the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC). Childs is President and Chief Executive Officer of SkyWest, Inc. Childs, a current member of the NAC, replaces former Chair David Bronczek, who retired from FedEx Corporation. Childs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}