WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Jerry Moran issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) - chairman and member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space and Innovation - today introduced the bipartisan Runway Surface Awareness and Focused, Effective Training and Technology (Runway SAFE-T) Act to improve airport driver training and support technologies to reduce runway incursions and other surface safety incidents.
The bipartisan legislation aims to address safety gaps that have contributed to a number of recent close calls in the national airspace system, including one at LaGuardia Airport in March when a jet collided with an airport fire truck that entered the runway while...