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2025-09-16GAO: Aviation Meteorologists: Urgent Actions Needed to Address Staffing Concerns
GAO-25-108597 Published: Aug 28, 2025. Publicly Released: Aug 28, 2025. Fast Facts Bad weather can snarl air travel. Air traffic controllers make weather-related decisions, like changing a plane’s route, for safety and efficiency. The National Weather Service puts aviation meteorologists on-site at the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control centers to help. They give regular -
2025-05-11Key Provisions in the 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act and Related GAO Work
GAO-25-108502 Published: May 15, 2025. Publicly Released: May 15, 2025. Fast Facts The U.S. national airspace system is the busiest and most complex in the world, with over 45,000 flights per day. The Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs FAA on how the agency is to ensure its safety and efficiency. We testified -
2024-09-01GAO 24-107001: FAA Actions Are Urgently Needed to Modernize Aging Systems
GAO report to Congressional committees identifying that 76% of FAA’s air traffic control systems are unsustainable or potentially unsustainable, with 58 systems having critical operational impacts on safety and efficiency. The report highlights urgent need for modernization following a 2023 national airspace shutdown due to aging system outage. -
2024-05-11Sharyn Parker’s notes prepared for interview with GAO representatives
Detailed notes prepared by former BFI Noise Officer Sharyn Parker for a General Accounting Office (GAO) interview covering factors contributing to public aviation noise perceptions, FAA’s evaluation and mitigation of noise impacts from performance-based navigation changes, and FAA’s public outreach practices. Includes specific criticisms of Sea-Tac’s Part 150 studies and regulatory oversight issues. -
New aircraft-noise rule would do little to quiet the skies: government report
By Jon Hemmerdinger 24 August 2020 A ban on aircraft that do not meet new noise standards would do little to reduce overall aircraft noise and would impose costly requirements on airlines and aerospace manufacturers. That is according to a 20 August report from the US Government Accountability Office into the likely impact of a -
GAO report to Adam Smith: AIP FAA Complying With Requirement for Local Involvement in Noise Mitigation Projects rced-99-41
January 8, 1999 Hon. Rodney E. Slater Secretary of Transportation 400 7th St. SW, Room 10205 Washington, D.C. 20590 Dear Secretary Slater, The General Accounting Office (GAO) has finished their report (GAO/RCED-99-41) on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) complying with requirements for local involvement in noise mitigation projects. I ordered this study because residents living -
1998-05-27Port of Seattle in violation of Federal Grant Assurance C.6 And State RCW 53.54.020
A compilation of evidence from Minnie O. Brasher documenting the Port of Seattle’s alleged violations of Federal Grant Assurance C.6 and State RCW 53.54.020 related to airport noise compatibility programs. The document contains 17 items including congressional letters, audit reports, court rulings, and documentation of over $100 million in federal funding received for noise mitigation