Inspector General

DOT Will Audit FAA on Runway Incursions
May 20, 2013 - 2:20pm

The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is to examine the FAA’s Runway Safety Program in the light of a steadily increasing number of runway incursions and evaluate the agency’s progress in implementing initiatives to prevent further incursions.

Prevention of runway incursions and ground collisions has been on the NTSB’s “Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements List” since 1990.

DOT Highlights Safety as Top Management Challenge
March 18, 2013 - 12:20pm

Enhancing aviation and surface safety remains the top priority for the U.S. Department of Transportation, concluded the department’s Inspector General in a recent report of the agency’s top management challenges.
DOT Inspector General Auditing ADS-B Security
March 3, 2013 - 4:55am

The Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) announced on January 23 that it is initiating an audit of the FAA’s ADS-B “information security controls.” While some concerns about insecurity of ADS-B signals have surfaced, it is not known if these concerns drove the decision to require the audit. The audit itself stems from a requirement in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.
DOT To Audit FAA’s NextGen Program
February 18, 2013 - 1:55pm

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s inspector general will begin a congressionally mandated audit of the FAA’s air traffic management modernization effort next month. “While the FAA has committed to improve the management of NextGen and its other major modernization programs, key programs continue to experience schedule delays and cost overruns that could compromise the expected benefits from NextGen initiatives,” said DOT assistant inspector general Jeffrey Guzzetti in a February 14 letter.
IG Must Audit Voluntary Disclosure System
September 17, 2012 - 3:40pm

The FAA’s Inspector General this week begins an audit to review how well the agency is protecting its own Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program (VDRP) against misuse.
Inspector General Says ATSAP Needs Work
July 30, 2012 - 4:45pm

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report on July 19 outlining additional steps necessary to make the FAA’s Air Traffic Safety Action Program (ATSAP) more effective at identifying safety risks.
OIG Will Audit FAA's NextGen Progress
July 30, 2012 - 4:10pm

The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General said in a July 19 memo, “While FAA is taking steps to improve the management of NextGen, such as establishing a new program management office, overall progress with implementation has not met expectations.”
House Subcommittee Challenges ATC Consolidation Efforts
June 4, 2012 - 4:35pm
NATCA president Paul Rinaldi

As the aviation subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives wrestles with deciding which of the FAA’s 402 Air Traffic Control facilities should be remodeled and which ones should be combined to reduce operating costs, Congressmen have been hearing testimony from the FAA, DOT and National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) off
DOT Report: Controller Training Needs Another Look
April 4, 2012 - 3:30am

Although the FAA has begun hiring and training more than 12,000 air traffic controllers to offset the large numbers of impending retirees, a disturbing number of new hires fail to complete their training, according to a January report from the DOT Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

FAA looks to rein in controller costs
July 27, 2011 - 6:20am

A report by the Transportation Department’s inspector general determined that the three-year 2009 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) will cost the FAA $669 million more than it would have cost to extend an earlier agreement that was signed in 2006.

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