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RCED-94-296R 1 (1994-09-26)

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             United States
GAO          General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Resources, Community, and
             Economic Development Division
             B-258242


             September 26, 1994


             The Honorable Wendell H. Ford
             Chairman, Subcommittee on Aviation
             Committee on Commerce, Science
                and Transportation
              United States Senate

              Dear Mr. Chairman:

              The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible
              for ensuring aviation safety with fewer staff in a much
              more advanced and challenging technological environment
              than in the past. Now more than ever, FAA needs to
              effectively train its smaller, less experienced workforce
              to conduct the agency's activities. After FAA studies,
              completed in 1988, identified widespread problems in its
              training system, the agency undertook two major efforts to
              upgrade and modernize its training system: The Flight
              Plan for Training, developed in January 1989, outlined the
              initiatives and projects needed to improve training, and
              the Technical Training Management System (TTMS),
              introduced in September 1992, established a customer-
              driven approach for managing technical training.

              Concerned about whether FAA's efforts to upgrade and
              modernize its training system are adequate in today's
              rapidly changing technological environment, you asked us
              to provide you with information on the progress FAA has
              made to improve its technical training system.
              Specifically, this correspondence (1) provides information
              on the cost and status of the Flight Plan initiatives and
              (2) identifies the manner in which TTMS affects FAA's
              technical training programs. Of the initial $406 million
              cost estimate for the Flight Plan, FAA expected to fund
              about $282 million from the operations account and about
              $124 million from the facilities and equipment account.
              As agreed with your office, we did not include facilities
              and equipment expenditures in our review.


GAO/RCED-94-296R, FAA Technical Training

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