Kerry Fleming

Kerry Fleming has been employed at the Federal Aviation Administration for thirty-nine years. The first twenty as an air traffic controller in New England and the last eighteen in the airspace security directorate in Washington DC. Mr. Fleming recently provided the keynote speech at the Unmanned Nordic Conference 2024 in Oslo, Norway. He has served on numerous aviation related conference panels as the preeminent authority for all airspace restrictions in the United States.

His oversight of the System Operations Support Center (SOSC) is crucial in navigating the requirements of the National Airspace System’s safe and efficient movement of air traffic with the requirements necessary in managing events that require restricting aircraft access to the effected airspace. His elite team of highly experienced airspace specialists are specifically responsible for issuing Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs); in the vicinity of the President and Vice President, National Security Events, Counter UAS Equipment activations, Law Enforcement incidents, and Space Launches. They are the sole approving authority for all Special Governmental Interest (SGI) airspace authorizations into controlled, restricted, and prohibited areas airspace for real time life-saving emergency situations or in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster.