The engineers work for Elon Musk's SpaceX has been included as a senior adviser for the administrator's Federal Aviation Department (FAA), wired sources.
On Sunday, Sean Duffy, Minister of Transport (DOT), FAA supervision, Notification In a post on X that SpaceX engineers will visit the command center of the air traffic control system in Virginia to get what he positions as a tour. “The safety of aviation tourism is a non -party issue, Musk Musk reply. SpaceX engineers will help make tourism safer.
However, at the time these posts were done, according to sources Special Agency That allows government managers to hire people with disabilities without asking them to compete for work, according to Go to the Human Resource Management Office (OPM).
These new employees arrive after the end of hundreds of FAA testers, and our most deadly month Air disaster For more than a decade.
According to a knowledge source, no engineer of SpaceX engineers are completely considered by their start date. Not like The technology is very young Linked to the so -called government effect (DOGE) of Musk, who have been granted access to important systems at agencies. From OPM arrive Ministry of Finance arrive National Ocean and Ocean Ocean Management Agency However, in recent weeks, engineers have been determined by Wired to make Malaska, Thomas Kiernan, Sam Smeal and Brady Glantz, seemingly experienced related to the FAA.
Malaska is currently, according to his LinkedIn, a senior director of the application software at SpaceX, where he started working in May 2021. Baltimore County in 2000 and Cowrote A The book 2015 On Hadoop Application Architecture.
Kiernan is currently a main software engineer at SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn. Before joining SpaceX in May 2020, he worked at Wayfair and graduated from Dartmouth 2017.
SMEAL is a software engineer who has worked at SpaceX since September 2021, according to his LinkedIn. He graduated from Saint Vincent College in 2018.
Glantz is a software engineer who has worked at SpaceX from May 2024 and works as a technical analyst at Goldman Sachs from 2019 to 2021, according to his LinkedIn, and graduated from Michigan University in 2019.
Malaska, Kiernan, Smeal and Glantz did not immediately respond to comments. FAA also did not immediately answer the comments.
IN His posts on xDuffy said, “Because I know the media (and Hillary Clinton) will declare Elon's group has special access, let me make it clear that @Faanews often offer Chinese tours. Tam commanded both the media and the company.