The FAA's efforts over the past three years to operate more like a business have paid real dividends, not just to the flying public but to the taxpayer as well. By implementing improved management tools, including better cost-accounting systems and instituting a pay-for-performance program, we've been able to make better use of our resources. It's paying off, and some tangible results are reflected in this budget request. This year, we completed the largest A-76 competition in government and will see the first installment of cost savings ($66 million) in FY 2007. The agency's network of automated flight services stations, which provide weather guidance and other assistance to the pilots of small airplanes, will be reduced from 58 to 20. The technology at the facilities is being enhanced, and the employees who left federal service as a result of this transition were given offers to work for Lockheed-Martin, the successful bidder for the contract.


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    Title :

    Federal Aviation Administration Budget in Brief, Fiscal Year 2007


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    26 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English