Department of Transportation

subagencies: FAA

Position	Date	Person	Notes
DOT 2/XX	2/XX	Daniel Abrahamson	appointed Senior Advisor «start date unknown but ProPublica says “early February”» Politico
FAA 2/16	2/16	Brady Glantz	appointed (NTE 2025-02-20) Wired
FAA 2/16	2/16	Thomas Kiernan	appointed (NTE 2025-02-20) Wired
FAA 2/16	2/16	Ted Malaska	appointed (NTE 2025-02-20) Wired
FAA 2/16	2/16	Sam Smeal	appointed (NTE 2025-02-20) Wired
DOT c.5/07	c.5/07	Brian Stube	appointed Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Office of the Secretary ProPublica

Agency	Date	Event
FAA	2/05 FAA	Report: Elon Musk promises that DOGE will make rapid upgrades to airline systems after outage of NOTAM alerting system NYT
FAA	2/10 FAA	Official: NOTAM has its name changed from Notice to Air Missions back to its original name of Notice to Airmen press release
FAA	2/17 FAA	Directory: Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX Brady Glantz, Thomas Kiernan, Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal Bloomberg
FAA	2/18 FAA	Disruption: DOGE staffer Ted Malaska declares that SpaceX is the only company able to complete a communications network contract already awarded to Verizon, threatens to report anybody blocking his work to Musk Bloomberg
April 2025
FAA	4/25 FAA	Disruption: DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named "Project Lift," requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects. Rolling Stone