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FAA is undertaking efforts to support industry workforce development, including awarding grants to attract young people to aviation careers. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 includes a provision for GAO to study the aviation and aerospace workforce of the future, including the current and future supply of individuals.

FAA is undertaking efforts to support industry workforce development, including awarding grants to attract young people to aviation careers.

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The Aviation Workforce Development Enhancement Act would help expand the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s current Aviation Workforce Development Grant program by increasing annual funding for pilot development and mechanic development grants, as well as provide grant funding for aviation manufacturing workforce development. United States Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) re-introduced the Aviation Workforce, Opportunity, Recruiting, Knowledge, and Supply (Aviation WORKS) Act, bipartisan legislation which would strengthen aviation and aerospace workforce pipelines by boosting investments in aviation workforce. C.

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. This bill expands the qualified tuition program (commonly referred to as 529 plans) to allow distributions to pay education-related expenses required for participation in certain aviation maintenance and commercial pilot courses.

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