Substack Daily Updates – 5-12-25

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 5-11-25 – Budget and Reconciliation dominating – DOD space operations – Reauthorization hearings on CISA information sharing, pipeline safety and FAA – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/05/review-committee-hearings-week-of-5-11.html

• Review – S 1249 Introduced – UAS Zoning Authority – Would provide some State and local government authority of UAS operations – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/05/review-s-1249-introduced-uas-zoning.html

• Short Takes – 5-12-25 – Small business tariff fallout – NASA budget cuts have international fallout – DOGE spending controls – More flight disruptions probable – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/05/short-takes-5-12-25.html

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

• I left the following comment on X to a discussion about the new Air Force One being donated to Trump by his Arab friends: “The delays in getting Air Force One replaced have almost certainly been due to security and comms updates to the basic Boeing plane. Wouldn't similar work have to be done to this plane?”