Archer Opens Washington D.C. Office, Welcomes New Regulatory Affairs Advisors

Archer Avi­a­tion announced today the open­ing of a new office in Wash­ing­ton D.C as well as key strate­gic hires to bol­ster its gov­ern­ment rela­tions efforts, reports a press release.

Archer’s office is locat­ed at 500 L’Enfant Plaza, near the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) and Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (DOT) head­quar­ters. The build­ing includes a dis­play area for its Mid­night Air­craft for vis­it­ing pol­i­cy­mak­ers and world lead­ers to see.

Mean­while, Bil­ly Nolan now becomes Archer’s Chief Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs Offi­cer. New staff advi­sors, Melis­sa McCaf­frey (liai­son for U.S State and local lev­els) and Lyn­da Tran, a for­mer Senior Advi­sor to the U.S Sec­re­tary of Trans­porta­tion and Direc­tor of Pub­lic Engage­ment at DOT, have joined the com­pa­ny.

Melis­sa McCaf­frey and Lyn­da Tran

Pri­or to Archer, McCaf­frey led Overair’s Gov­ern­ment Affairs divi­sion, where she head­ed their gov­ern­ment rela­tions and pol­i­cy strat­e­gy, advo­cat­ing at all lev­els of gov­ern­ment for key posi­tions on poli­cies and reg­u­la­tions in sup­port of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try. 

Before that, she spent over 10 years at the Air­craft Own­ers and Pilots Asso­ci­a­tion, the world’s largest avi­a­tion mem­ber­ship asso­ci­a­tion. McCaf­frey holds a B.S. in Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment from Embry-Rid­dle Aero­nau­ti­cal Uni­ver­si­ty and has been a licensed pilot for over 20 years.

Nolan com­ment­ed, “This strate­gic move is part of our proac­tive approach to pro­gress­ing through the reg­u­la­to­ry process here in the U.S as effi­cient­ly as pos­si­ble, so that we can help ensure our coun­try con­tin­ues to define the future of glob­al avi­a­tion.”

He con­tin­ued, “Show­cas­ing our lead­ing eVTOL air­craft tech­nolo­gies to lead­ers in the nation’s cap­i­tal will help bring to life our vision to trans­form cities by reduc­ing traf­fic with safe, qui­et elec­tric air taxis.”

Mean­while, Invari­ant, a bipar­ti­san gov­ern­ment rela­tions and com­mu­ni­ca­tions firm pro­vid­ing strate­gic advice to com­pa­nies, trade asso­ci­a­tions, non-prof­its, and indi­vid­u­als on how to make Wash­ing­ton work for them, will assist Archer to lob­by on key fed­er­al issues relat­ing to com­mer­cial­is­ing the AAM indus­try.

For more infor­ma­tion 

https://www.archer.com/usher/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/invariant-gr/

(Top image: Archer Mid­night Air­craft)

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