Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Lynne A. Osmus Takes Over For Bobby Sturgell
It's been nothing but small
surprises here and there today, folks... not the least of which is
the fact that an understated announcement by the President brought
news that the FAA was coming under new management, as of January
16th... until further notice. According to some industry sources,
the appointment comes as a bit of a surprise, since the current
Acting Administrator, Bobby Sturgell, had not been reported as
having submitted his resignation. Still; it was taken for granted
that he would be stepping down at the end of the Bush
Administration.
Lynne A. Osmus will take over for Bobby Sturgell effective January
16, 2009. Near the end of an announcement about President Bush's
late appointments is the statement: "The President intends to
designate Lynne A. Osmus, of Virginia, to be Acting Administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration, to become effective January
16, 2009."
And that's all there is to that... for now.
Ms. Osmus is currently the FAA Assistant Administrator for
Security and Hazardous Materials, a position she has had since July
1, 2003. She has been with the FAA since 1979, and an executive
since 1990, primarily in the field of aviation security. She was
appointed to be the Deputy Associate Administrator of FAA's Civil
Aviation Security Program just three months prior to the 9/11
attacks and then led the FAA's transition of the security programs
to the TSA.
More recently, Ms. Osmus was designated as the "transition
executive" for the Obama Transition team. This reunited her with
her old boss Jane Garvey, the former FAA Administrator under
President Clinton, for whom Ms. Osmus was Chief of Staff. Ms.
Garvey is a member of the Obama Transition team and had been
previously mentioned as a possible nominee for Secretary of
Transportation (though, unfortunately, not nominated for that
august post).
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