Lynne A. Osmus was appointed Assistant Administrator for Security and Hazardous Materials on July 1, 2003. Ms. Osmus has been an executive with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 1990, and an FAA employee since 1979. She is currently responsible for the internal security programs of FAA, including security of FAA facilities, personnel security, investigations, the drug interdiction support program, and security of classified material. She also manages the agency's Hazardous Materials Program, which provides oversight of rules governing the transportation of hazardous materials by air. And her organization serves as the link to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Intelligence. The Office of Security and Hazardous Materials is composed of approximately 460 people posted at locations across the country, with an annual budget of just over $50 M.
Prior to this assignment, Ms. Osmus had become the Deputy Associate Administrator of FAA's Civil Aviation Security Program just 3 months prior to the attacks on 9/11, and led the FAA's post-9/11 security response, and the transition of the security programs to TSA following the creation of that agency. She served as the Director of the FAA's Europe, Africa and Middle East Office in Brussels, Belgium from 1998 to 2000, and prior to that had been the FAA's Chief of Staff for 4 years with Administrators David Hinson and Jane Garvey. From 1990 to 1995, she was the Director of Operations in the Office of Civil Aviation Security.