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The FAA’s Future Flight Services Program (FFSP) system promotes safety by facilitating the filing of flight plans, providing weather briefings, and receiving safety notifications and alerts relevant to the flight plans filed by the General Aviation (GA) pilot.
The FAA developed...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Administration’s (FMCSA) core mission is to reduce commercial motor vehicle-related crashes, injuries, and fatalities. To further this mission, FMCSA’s Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology undertakes numerous research...
The Office of Aviation Consumer Protection (OACP/C-70) is part of the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) within the Department of Transportation (DOT or the Department). OACP has broad authority under 49 U.S.C., Subtitle VII, to investigate and enforce consumer protection and civil rights laws...
The Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, gives the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the responsibility to carry out safety programs to ensure the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. The FAA developed the Flight Standards Automation System/Technical Analysis Program (...
Pursuant to the Administrator’s general authority under 49 United States Code 322, General Powers, and 49 United States Code 40101, Policy, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) purchased the vFairs software for use in performance of FAA activities. vFairs is a software used by the Office of...
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Financial Services (ABA) Purchase Request Information System (PRISM) is used to process and track procurement documents such as purchase requests (PRs), procurement contracts (PCs), and purchase orders (POs) for products and services for the FAA. PRISM...
The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991 mandated the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to combat prohibited drug use and alcohol misuse in the transportation industry. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is authorized to verify FTA covered employers conduct...
The Office of Security and Hazardous Materials Safety (ASH) processes background investigations under the authority of 5 Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) 731.104(a), which requires that government employees and contractors undergo a background investigation to establish their suitability for...
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), codified at 49 U.S.C. 20168, requires FRA (as the Secretary (Secretary) of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) delegate) to promulgate regulations requiring each railroad carrier that provides regularly scheduled intercity or...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is authorized by 49 U.S.C. § 30182 and 23 U.S.C. § 403 to collect data on motor vehicle traffic crashes to aid in the identification of issues and the development, implementation, and evaluation of motor vehicle and highway safety...