Lost amid the dramatic push for – and final securing of – passage of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure draft law last week was the vote approving of another bill designed to have far-reaching consequences for the country: the Advanced Air Mobility Coordination and Leadership Act.
Just how big are the stakes shaping quickly developing advanced air mobility (AAM) tech and services behind the legislation? The bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday was not only introduced by sponsors on opposite sides of the often seemingly unbridgeable chasm separating Democrats and Republicans, but was similarly passed with support across the aisle. The companion bill cleared in the Senate earlier this year was tabled, moreover, by Republican Jerry Moran and Kyrsten Sinema – the Arizona Democrat who tends to sit, Sphinx-like, all on her lonesome while vexed members of both parties struggle to figure out what she really wants.
But her…
