ATC
Mattis: DOD 'Is Supportive' of ATC Privatization
The DOD position was shared during a hearing on the the need to reform the nation's air traffic control system.

U.S. air traffic control reform advocates have gotten a key endorsement from Defense Secretary James Mattis, who wrote that the Department of Defense is “supportive of possible privatization.” The letter, shared by House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa), acknowledged potential risks that privatization could create to national security, but said, “we have formed an ad hoc committee [composed] of Combatant Command and military department representatives to assess the current ATC relationship between DoD and the FAA within 120 days to delineate the linkages that would be necessary with a privatized ATC entity.”

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