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FAA Grants-in-Aid for Airports

The Airport Improvement Program provides funding to airports for infrastructure improvements such as safety, security and capacity projects.

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.
  • The program demonstrates overall cost effectiveness and efficiency. Program is using greater delegation to the regions and use of automation to improve efficiency.
  • Program structure combined with the statute can limit the programs' ability to quickly respond to new situations and events. For example, statute provides specific criteria on eligibility and use of funds.
  • The program has good measures and targets and a number of long and short term goals that are intricately linked together. The Department's 2004 budget proposal aligned spending with goals to drive improved performance within the program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • The program established a baseline cost per $1million of grants awarded. It has targeted a reduction in cost to award grants of 1 percent annually over the coming years.
  • Use of the efficiency measure is a standard management practice.

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