But the next day, President Donald Trump deepened the FAA’s problems by blaming the disaster on diversity programs, a pronouncement that baffled many in the agency’s workforce. At least one ...

The Trump administration began firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, just weeks after a deadly crash outside of Washington, D.C., put a spotlight on ...

Two weeks ago, SpaceX engineer Ted Malaska showed up at the Federal Aviation Administration’s headquarters in Washington to deliver what he described as a directive from his boss Elon Musk: The ...

Billy Nolen, a former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator, said Monday that now is the time for air traffic control upgrades. “[One of the things] I’ve testified both ...

The nation’s top aviation regulator was thrust back into the spotlight this weekend as the Trump Administration fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, just weeks ...

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the AP. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said ...

Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau said the DOGE team -- which visited the Air Traffic Control command center and Potomac TRACON in Warrenton, Virginia, on Monday -- will be at other FAA ...

WASHINGTON — A disabled veteran, who worked for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), is speaking out after being laid off, telling WUSA9 on Saturday that he is concerned about public ...

Musk, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump and the owner of satellite company Starlink, has sharply criticized the current FAA telecom system amid reports that Starlink could interfere or ...

A union that represents FAA workers says 132 workers have been let go. The Trump administration's mass layoffs across federal agencies have hit the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has ...

The Trump administration has dismissed hundreds of FAA employees, causing disruption in air travel. The firings, communicated via email, targeted probationary staff involved in radar, landing ...

Like others across the federal workforce, the terminated FAA employees were probationary workers hired or promoted within the past year. The terminated FAA employees included workers who assist ...