Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The new chief of the Transportation Security Administration, David Pekoske, picked up on many themes of his predecessor in stressing industry collaboration and taking a risked-based approach when he made his first address before the Aero Club of Washington, but he also emphasized a need for expediency and long-term capital planning.

 


Pekoske was sworn in as the seventh TSA Administrator in August, succeeding Peter Neffenger. In his speech to the Aero Club on Friday, Pekoske credited partnership with industry in helping to deploy key security technologies rapidly. “The support we’ve had from industry has just been tremendous,” he said.

 


Describing the evolving nature of security threats, Pekoske said the agency must remain agile. To be successful, regulators and industry “must understand each other’s environments,” he said.&nbsp;

 


Pekoske views the TSA’s role as establishing what security outcomes are necessary and then working in partnership with industry and other government and local agencies on how to achieve those outcomes.

 


He outlined a vision for deploying new screening technologies, but said his goal is to establish a long-term capital investment plan that outlines the goals and tradeoffs of spending. Not having such a plan, he said, “makes it harder when the agency goes through a budget process.”

 


The TSA further is working on a long-term strategy, outlining goals over the next five to seven years. This strategy should be formed in collaboration with industry, Pekoske added.

 


At the same time, he stressed the need to move forward expeditiously, speeding up the decision-making process, saying he does not like to “take a long time to get to a decision.”&nbsp;

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