Designee Registration System (DRS)

Under Title 49 of the United States Code § 44702, Congress gave the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the ability to delegate to qualified members of the public the authority to certify aircraft and people on behalf of the FAA Administrator. These qualified members of the public are called Designees. Designees have the authority to act on the behalf of the FAA when certifying aircraft and people to make examinations, test, inspect, and issue certificates. The FAA is responsible for the oversight and management of Designees. To qualify Designees, the FAA developed the Designee Registration System (DRS) for the primary purpose of managing Designee required training. DRS is a training management web-based system that allows all members of the public to create DRS user profiles, select courses, pay for courses via Pay.gov, complete courses via the FAA’s Blackboard system, and allows the FAA to track and manage courses. Users of DRS are individuals who are seeking to qualify as Designees, and Designees who take recurrent and specialized training. All DRS users are collectively known as Students. To create the profile to use the DRS system, individuals must identify their category of designee/designee applicant. Section 208 of the E-Government Act of 2002 requires all federal government agencies to conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for all new or substantially changed technology that collects, maintains, or disseminates Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The FAA previously published the DRS PIA on October 16, 2018, because DRS collects and maintains Students’ PII when they create a DRS user profile. The PIA is being updated to reflect the revision of Privacy Act System of Records Notice DOT/FAA 830, Representatives of the Administrator, and an update to the retention schedule. DRS is scheduled to be decommissioned by the end of calendar year 2025 and consumed by the Designee Management System. The PIA for that system will be updated to reflect the change.