Overview
- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which voted 62-0 Thursday, advanced the amended ALERT Act alongside a 53-0 Armed Services vote, and the texts now move to the Rules Committee before a floor vote.
- The bill directs the FAA to set a deadline no later than December 31, 2031 for cockpit traffic‑display technology known as ADS‑B In, which shows other aircraft’s positions, and it permits portable receivers or electronic flight bag displays as an alternative.
- The measure carves out fighters and bombers from public location broadcasts, orders DOD‑DOT coordination on operations, adds new training and flight‑data monitoring, and sets ADS‑B Out transmissions as the default for most military helicopter training in the D.C. area unless waived.
- The NTSB now supports the rewrite after criticizing an earlier draft, while victims’ families and the Air Line Pilots Association say they will not endorse it without firm statutory timelines and a mandate for full ADS‑B In suites.
- The House version also folds in Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act provisions that curb commercial use of ADS‑B data and extend a ban on starting investigations based only on those flight tracks to all government entities.