Episode 12: Project 2025 and the TSA
May 14, 2026
In this Episode, Kevin takes a deeper look at the policy blueprint shaping many of the changes we’ve seen at TSA over the past year: Project 2025. He breaks down six key Project 2025 proposals affecting DHS and TSA:1. The use of “Acting” Administrators, 2. The dissolution and replacement of Security Advisory Committees, 3. The end of union representation within DHS, 4. The separation of screening operations from regulatory oversight, 5. The adoption of a private governance model, and 6. The expansion of the Screening Partnership Program (SPP)
For each recommendation, he explains what Project 2025 proposes — and how those ideas have already manifested inside TSA.
Episode 11: Making the Case for Workforce Cuts
April 29, 2026
In this Episode, Kevin continues to cover the President's FY2027 budget request for the Transportation Security Administration and comments on the Administration's testimony before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, where they make the case to expand the Screening Partnership Program and outsource passenger and baggage screening to TSA-approved private contract providers.
Episode 10: President’s FY27 TSA Budget
April 10, 2026
In this episode, Kevin breaks down the Administration's key proposals for the Transportation Security Administration, including major technology upgrades, new passenger‑experience initiatives, workforce cuts, and a push toward expanded private screening at U.S. airports.
Episode 9: TSA Funding
April 2, 2026
In this episode, Kevin dives into how America’s modern aviation security system came to be — and why its funding structure remains a politically vulnerable part of our national security apparatus. He’ll look at how 9/11 transformed aviation security, how TSA is actually funded, the surprising truth about the 9/11 Security Fee, and what TSA’s budget really looks like.
Episode 8: Aviation Security - TRAILER
March 26, 2026
In this episode, Kevin - a long-time senior consultant to the Transportation Security Administration - kicks off a new series on Aviation Security. He'll look at the aviation security ecosystem and discuss how aviation security works, why it's ultimately a shared responsibility between government and industry, and how policy decisions can impact this vital transportation sector.
Episode 7: Trains, Planes, & Aerocars
February 24, 2026
In this episode , Kevin tells the story of TAT, the Transcontinental Air Transport Company and its audacious endeavor to carry passengers in first-class comfort from coast-to-coast in only 48 hours. Plus, he details the role Waynoka, Oklahoma played as a major transfer point along the route specifically chosen by Charles Lindbergh for the airline.
Episode 6: Partnership over Privatization
January 27, 2026
In this episode, Kevin wraps up his series on air traffic control: how it’s funded, how it operates, and how it’s overseen. He addresses the overall role of the government in aviation, looks at the federal contract tower program as an existing hybrid model, and previews what’s coming next - private providers in low‑altitude airspace and new entrant operations.
In this episode, Kevin recaps the first four episodes, looks at where things stand right now, and begins wrapping up this broader discussion on Federal Aviation Administration funding and what happens to air traffic controller pay when that funding lapses; what Congress is doing — or not doing — to address it; airspace modernization efforts and opportunities; and operational and safety governance models, including the long-running debate over whether air traffic control should be privatized.
Episode 5: A Recap and Wrap Up!
January 15, 2026
Episode 4: Should Air Traffic Control Be Independent?
January 5, 2026
In this episode, Kevin addresses the question of whether air traffic control should be structurally separated from the government agencies responsible for regulating it. He discusses global trends and the U.S. debate.
Episode 3: Air Traffic Modernization. Is This a Historic Moment?
December 16, 2025
In this Episode, Kevin details how air traffic control is both a system-of-systems and a service provided to users of the system. He talks about its infrastructure and workforce, how it fits within the FAA, the modernization challenge, where Congress has stepped in and the clear and present opportunity for it to make history!
Episode 2: Don’t Worry. Congress Has a Solution!
December 9, 2025
In this Episode, Kevin compares legislation that will solve the problem of the government shutting down and the air traffic control system.
In episode 1 of Kevin Fisher Consultant, the YouTube Channel Podcast, Kevin details how the FAA is funded, how much of your money goes to support air traffic control services, and why a lapse in spending authority forced thousands of air traffic controllers, managers, supervisors, engineers and maintenance technicians to work without pay during the government shutdown.
Episode 1: They're Not Being Paid WHY?
December 2, 2025
Trailer: Kevin Fisher Consultant. The YouTube Channel Podcast:
November 25, 2025
In the trailer, Kevin introduces himself, explains his passion for aviation policy, and what listeners can expect from future episodes in this podcast series.