Download or read book FAA Oversight Is Key for Contractor Owned Air Traffic Control Systems That Are Not Certified electronic Resource written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAA oversight is key for contractor-owned air traffic control systems that are not certified [electronic resource] : Federal Aviation Administration.
Download or read book FAA oversight is key for contractor owned air traffic control systems that are not certified written by United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Aviation Administration's computer contract with IBM Corporation.
Download or read book Management of Air Traffic Controller Training Contracts written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) program for testing the air traffic control systems and equipment it procures under its National Airspace System (NAS) plan. GAO found that: (1) a December 1986 FAA test and evaluation order sought to implement an independent contractor's recommendations for improving system testing, but did not address the roles of system users or establish effective controls to ensure compliance; (2) FAA established an operational test and evaluation group, but that group only reviewed those systems which cost at least $150 million, and subsequent agency reorganizations eliminated the group's independence from system developers and users; (3) FAA did not always conduct the testing necessary to ensure that systems worked as intended and were operationally suitable before proceeding with system production and deployment, resulting in schedule delays of up to 8 years for some systems; (4) 11 of 15 reviewed deployed systems did not comply with the December 1986 test order, and 7 of those systems lacked approved master test plans; (5) FAA issued a new test and evaluation order in February 1989 to overcome past testing deficiencies, but that order did not recognize the need for independent oversight; and (6) FAA top management has not provided the support necessary for implementing an effective test program.
Download or read book Status of the Air Traffic Control System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Airway Transportation System Specialists ATSS) maintain and certify the equipment in the National Airspace System (NAS).In fiscal year 2012, Technical Operations had a budget of $1.7B. Thus, Technical Operations includes approximately 19 percent of the total FAA employees and less than 12 percent of the $15.9 billion total FAA budget. Technical Operations comprises ATSS workers at five different types of Air Traffic Control (ATC) facilities: (1) Air Route Traffic Control Centers, also known as En Route Centers, track aircraft once they travel beyond the terminal airspace and reach cruising altitude; they include Service Operations Centers that coordinate work and monitor equipment. (2) Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities control air traffic as aircraft ascend from and descend to airports, generally covering a radius of about 40 miles around the primary airport; a TRACON facility also includes a Service Operations Center. (3) Core Airports, also called Operational Evolution Partnership airports, are the nation's busiest airports. (4) The General National Airspace System (GNAS) includes the facilities located outside the larger airport locations, including rural airports and equipment not based at any airport. (5) Operations Control Centers are the facilities that coordinate maintenance work and monitor equipment for a Service Area in the United States. At each facility, the ATSS execute both tasks that are scheduled and predictable and tasks that are stochastic and unpredictable in. These tasks are common across the five ATSS disciplines: (1) Communications, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers and pilots to be in contact throughout the flight; (2) Surveillance and Radar, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to see the specific locations of all the aircraft in the airspace they are monitoring; (3) Automation, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to track each aircraft's current and future position, speed, and altitude; (4) Navigation, maintaining the systems that allow pilots to take off, maintain their course, approach, and land their aircraft; and (5) Environmental, maintaining the power, lighting, and heating/air conditioning systems at the ATC facilities. Because the NAS needs to be available and reliable all the time, each of the different equipment systems includes redundancy so an outage can be fixed without disrupting the NAS. Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation reviews the available information on: (A) the duties of employees in job series 2101 (Airways Transportation Systems Specialist) in the Technical Operations service unit; (B) the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union of the AFL-CIO; (C) the present-day staffing models employed by the FAA; (D) any materials already produced by the FAA including a recent gap analysis on staffing requirements; (E) current research on best staffing models for safety; and (F) non-US staffing standards for employees in similar roles.
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by David A. Powner and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FY 2008, the FAA plans to spend $2 billion on info. technology (IT) investments -- many of which support FAA¿s air traffic control modernization. To more effectively manage such investments, in 2005 the Office of Mgmt. and Budget required agencies to use earned value mgmt. (EVM). EVM is a project mgmt. approach that provides objective reports of project status, produces early warning signs of impending schedule delays and cost overruns, and provides unbiased estimates of a program¿s total costs. This report: assesses FAA¿s policies for implementing EVM on its IT investments; evaluates whether the agency is adequately using these techniques to manage key IT acquisitions; and assesses the agency¿s efforts to oversee EVM compliance. Tables.
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the proposed establishment of a government-owned corporation to operate, maintain, and modernize the nation's air traffic control (ATC) system, focusing on: (1) whether exempting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from federal procurement regulations will substantially accelerate modernization; (2) how FAA can better position itself to meet the ATC system's future needs; and (3) how the proposed incorporation will affect FAA financing and safety issues. GAO noted that: (1) FAA would not be able to significantly accelerate the installation of ATC equipment if it was exempt from federal procurement regulations; (2) many factors, including underestimating the technical complexity of ATC system development, contribute to ATC modernization delays; (3) FAA capital and strategic goals are well-organized and defined and in accordance with federal legislation; (4) many FAA financing and safety oversight issues will need to be resolved if an ATC corporation is created; (5) FAA will need to define how it will accelerate investments, ensure that revenues and expenditures assumptions are accurate, determine the government's potential liability for corporation losses and debt, define the new divisions of responsibility between the corporation and the new FAA agency, and limit the risks that could affect the safety margins in the current system; and (6) the proposed FAA corporation will need to require the performance of safety-related activities regardless of its financial condition, establish safety standards for judging compliance, address weaknesses in its proposed oversight model, and complete controller and maintenance workforce staffing standards.
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the proposal to reform the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) system by creating a wholly-owned, not-for-profit, self-sufficient government corporation. GAO noted that: (1) the corporation could be financially viable if budgetary, cost, and revenue assumptions are realized, which will depend on exempting the corporation from spending caps, achieving operating efficiencies to minimize costs, excluding certain pension and post retirement health care costs, and growth in the economy and business travel; (2) the corporation's funding sources would include user fees, trust fund payments, and, under one scenario, debt financing; (3) under the proposal, FAA would continue to provide safety oversight, but there are concerns about the division of safety decisionmaking responsibilities and the resolution of regulatory disputes between the two entities, and FAA oversight of the new corporation given its past oversight deficiencies; (4) FAA may have difficulty monitoring the new corporation because of the loss of experienced ATC personnel to the new corporation; and (5) the corporation may underserve aviation sectors whose financial support may not equal the value they receive due to its emphasis on operating like a business.
Download or read book Safety of the Air Traffic Control Systems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Status of the Federal Aviation Administration s Air Traffic Control Modernization Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Traffic Controller Staffing Standards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Traffic Control Safety Oversight written by Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Transportation Inspector General testified before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security about Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) oversight and management of air traffic operations. The Inspector General identified four areas where FAA faces particular challenges: (1) identifying and addressing the causes of operational errors, (2) mitigating controller fatigue risks, (3) adequately staffing the controller workforce, and (4) training new controllers. FAA statistics show a recent significant increase in operational errors by controllers; however, the causes of this reported increase remain unclear. FAA has also not yet fully implemented recommendations to identify potential factors that may contribute to controller fatigue and mitigate that risk.
Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding of the Nation s Air Traffic Control System Has Safety Taken a Back Seat to Expediency written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air traffic control FAA needs to ensure better coordination when approving air traffic control systems report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Aviation Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
