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FAA Aviation Safety

The Aviation Safety program provides safety and regulatory oversight of the aviation industry by issuing regulations and safety directives, and by licensing aircraft.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Aviation Safety program lacks efficiency measures and targets.
  • Appropriate financial and management oversight of the program is maintained. Program utilizes a systems approach to safety by using risk management to focus resources efficiently.
  • Aviation Safety program issues only those appropriate rules and regulations that are required to meet the goals of the program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • A metric has been developed to provide a cost per rule. A broader scope measure would be more representative of the organization's efforts and the search for such a measure is underway.
  • Continuing to monitor performance measures which include reductions in the number of fatal air carrier accidents, general aviation and part 135 accidents and reduction of accidents in Alaska.
  • Program has conducted one study and is examining how to make this process a standard management practice.

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