{"id":14492,"date":"2019-12-17T16:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14492"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:28:01","slug":"nasao-and-faa-continue-mou-tradition-with-uas-and-runway-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/nasao-and-faa-continue-mou-tradition-with-uas-and-runway-safety\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NASAO and FAA Continue MOU Tradition with UAS and Runway Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rich tradition of having Memorandums of Understanding\n(MOUs) between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the States will continue,\nthanks to the recent signing of new agreements between FAA Administrator Steve\nDickson and John Binder, Chair of the National Association of State Aviation\nOfficials (NASAO), at FAA Headquarters in Washington D.C. on December 13, 2019.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longstanding relationship between the two organizations was\nfirst established in 1996, as a five year agreement, signed then by FAA Administrator\nDavid Hinson. It formalized the cooperative agreement between the two entities\nto develop a long-term partnership to provide services to the aviation\ncommunity. Each FAA Administrator since, has signed new agreements continuing\nthe relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOU-Signing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14494\" width=\"293\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOU-Signing.jpg 752w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOU-Signing-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><figcaption><em>FAA Administrator Dickson, left, and NASAO Chair, John Binder, sign the MOU.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The MOUs seek to address key issues through continued\ncollaboration on federal and state levels. Each of the MOUs outlines the key\nobjectives, action goals, and the overall process and structure to work towards\nthe stated goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really good to see this relationship continue between\nthe states and the FAA,\u201d said Kim Stevens, publisher of the State Aviation\nJournal and former state aviation official. \u201cThe MOUs between FAA and the\nStates through NASAO has been a unique and productive effort for many years\nnow.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems MOU,\noriginally established in 2014, will be to explore new methods of working\ncollaboratively to provide information on current and proposed UAS rules; authorization\nof UAS operations; to enhance outreach, education, and information sharing, as\nwell as to increase awareness of UAS activities within the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Runway Safety MOU, originally signed in 2015, will\nexplore methods of working collaboratively to provide and disseminate\ninformation on runway safety in order to reduce both incursion and excursions\nat airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;NASAO looks forward to the continued partnership with the FAA in order to enhance education opportunities and information exchange on these key aviation topics,&#8221; stated Binder, who is the Deputy Commissioner of Aviation for the Alaska Department of Transportation &amp; Public Facilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich tradition of having Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the States will continue, thanks to the recent signing of new agreements between FAA Administrator Steve Dickson and John Binder, Chair of the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO), at FAA Headquarters in Washington D.C. on December 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14493,"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-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MOU-Signing-2019.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","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=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14495,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions\/14495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}