{"id":23776,"date":"2022-10-23T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23776"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:55:52","slug":"u-s-dot-announces-new-members-to-the-advanced-aviation-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/u-s-dot-announces-new-members-to-the-advanced-aviation-advisory-committee\/%20","title":{"rendered":"U.S. DOT Announces New Members to the Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Transportation Department announced 12 new\nappointments to the Federal Aviation Administration Advanced Aviation Advisory\nCommittee (AAAC). The committee provides advice on key drone and Advanced Air\nMobility issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members are executives and stakeholders who represent a\nvariety of drone and AAM interests, including industry, research, academia,\nretail, technology and state and local government. In addition, for the first\ntime, the AAAC will include members able to raise awareness of potential\nimpacts to communities and advise on approaches that advance emerging aviation\nmodels while respecting neighboring communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new members are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Edward Bolen, Chief Executive Officer, National\nBusiness Aviation Association<\/li><li>Jeffrey Keith Antonio Brown, Aviation Chief\nOperating Officer, Port of Seattle <\/li><li>Kevin Cox, Chief Executive Officer, Ferrovial\nVertiports<\/li><li>Karthik Duraisamy, Professor of Aerospace\nEngineering, University of Michigan &amp; Founder and Chief Scientist,\nGeminus.AI<\/li><li>Amit Ganjoo, Founder and Chief Executive\nOfficer, ANRA Technologies<\/li><li>James Grimsley, Executive Director, Advanced\nTechnology Initiatives-Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma<\/li><li>Andrew LeBovidge, Executive Vice President,\nNational Air Traffic Controllers Associations (NATCA)<\/li><li>Houston Mills, Vice President, Flight Operations\nand Safety, United Parcel Service (UPS) \/ AAAC Chair<\/li><li>Okeoma Moronu, Head of Aviation Regulatory and\nLegal Affairs, Zipline<\/li><li>Melissa Tomkiel, President and General Counsel,\nBlade Air Mobility<\/li><li>James Viola, Chief Executive Officer, Helicopter\nAssociation International<\/li><li>Yolanka Wulff, Executive Director, Community Air\nMobility Initiative<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Transportation Department announced 12 new appointments to the Federal Aviation Administration Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee (AAAC). The committee provides advice on key drone and Advanced Air Mobility issues. Members are executives and stakeholders who represent a variety of drone and AAM interests, including industry, research, academia, retail, technology and state and local government. [&hellip;]<\/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-23776","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\/23776","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=23776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23777,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions\/23777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}