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Notam Improvement Act of 2023

Floor Speech

Date: May 9, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SCHUMER. 346 and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
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Mr. SCHUMER. A word on what we just did. A few moments ago, the Senate unanimously passed the NOTAM Improvement Act requiring the FAA to look into the resiliency of the cyber security of Notice to Air Missions system, which is critical for alerting pilots of danger when flying.

Nobody wants a repeat of the chaos and delay we saw at our airports back this January when FAA's NOTAM system went down.

This legislation will get the FAA to take a hard look under the hood of NOTAM to ensure it is as safe and reliable and well-protected from cyber attacks and technical glitches as possible.

I want to thank my colleagues who worked hard on this: Senator Klobuchar, the lead sponsor; Senator Capito; and Senator Moran for their work on this legislation. And, of course, I thank Senator Cantwell, chair of the Commerce Committee, for her good work on this as well. She gets a lot done.

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