Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Aviation Administration

Outline

• Introduction
o Why FFA is important
• History of the FFA
o Origins of FFA
o From Agency to Administration
o Evolving Duties
• Organizational Structure
o Hierarchy Among Administration
o Committees
• Advisory
• Rulemaking
• Goals of FFA
o increased safety, greater capacity, international leadership, and organizational excellence
o Greater Capacity
o International Leadership
o Organizational Excellence
• Conclusion


The FAA, or Federal Aviation Administration, is a very important and relative agency within the United States and is crucial to implementing policies that affect our everyday lives. The FAA regularly controls our airways, having influence on millions of passengers each year. As the airline industry became a rapid success in recent years, the FAA became a very important factor in implementing procedures to protect our safety and provide efficient and effective service.
Every organization involved in the public and private sectors has an overall goal and mission to achieve. The FAA is no different in that it strives to create a great future for itself and the entire aviation industry. The mission as stated from the FAA website is as follows “Our continuing mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.”(4). The vision for the agency gives a little broader view of what the administration hopes to achieve in the very long term within the aviation industry and states; “We strive to reach the next level of safety, efficiency, environmental responsibility and global leadership. We are accountable to the American public and our stakeholders.”(4). The FAA has strived to reach another level with American aviation and is a driving force to making ours one of the greatest in the world. The following will give a brief history of the FAA, including key bills and achievements, a look at how the FAA is organized structurally, and some of the goals that steer an organization such...