Former FAA Staffer joins Boeing
Thomas McSweeny, who has been FAA associate administrator for regulation and certification since October 1998, is leaving the agency this month to join Boe

Thomas McSweeny, who has been FAA associate administrator for regulation and certification since October 1998, is leaving the agency this month to join Boeing as its director of international safety and regulatory affairs. He will be prohibited from any contact with the agency for one year.

McSweeny said that Boeing offered him more money while allowing him to remain in the Washington, D.C. area. The FAA has not announced who will replace him, but several industry sources expect a replacement to come from the same general area of the agency.