ALERT Act

The ALERT Act is Congress's response to the January 29, 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people. It orders the FAA to issue a final rule within two years, effective no later than December 31, 2031, requiring most non-military aircraft to carry collision prevention technology that uses ADS-B In and gives pilots audible traffic alerts. It orders a separate rulemaking to require aircraft already mandated to carry collision avoidance systems to be equipped with the ACAS Xa system. It permanently closes the segment of Helicopter Route 4 between Hains Point and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge as that route existed on the day of the crash, and keeps that segment off helicopter charts. It bars any person or agency from using ADS-B data to identify an aircraft in order to obtain revenue from its owner without consent, and extends an existing statutory ban on such use from the FAA Administrator to any Federal, State, local, territorial, or Tribal official. It adds a new Aviation Safety chapter to defense law that requires the Departments of Defense and Transportation to enter a memorandum of agreement by September 30, 2026, and requires Defense Department manned rotary wing aircraft flying in the National Capital Region to transmit ADS-B Out, with an exception for special missions. It requires the Secretary of the Army to give the Armed Services Committees a copy of the Army's command investigation of the collision. It repeals the prior rotary wing safety provision at section 2654 of title 10. The bill also directs new air traffic controller training, controller time-on-position limits, annual helicopter route reviews, and a public rulemaking dashboard.

At least 72 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 229 quarterly reports filed by 30 lobbying firms and by 37 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Capital Region Airport Commission; Experimental Aircraft Association Inc; Vertical Aviation International; Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association; Kreindler & Kreindler (for Certain American 5342 Clients). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 67 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.