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FAA is Best in Class
FAA wins 19th CEAR Award for work on PAR
The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget awarded the FAA its 19th Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting (CEAR) last month.
The CEAR award recognizes the 2022 FAA Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) as an excellent and transparent report of the agency’s finances, performance results, and other key information. To top it off, the AGA presented the FAA its 11th Best in Class Award, this one for “Clear, Concise Performance Highlights” – a special designation.
“This is the first time we have recognized an agency in this category,” AGA’s chief executive officer Ann Ebberts said. “This report provides an exceptional Performance Highlights subsection, identifying the process for managing performance, goals, and high-level results. The report also presents informative and concise ‘Performance at a Glance’ tables.”
The 2022 PAR includes impressive data visualizations, photographs, a history of modern aviation and the FAA, information on sustainability initiatives, and details on the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Cobb credits his diverse team composed of financial and communications professionals, some with years of experience and in-depth knowledge of the PAR, as well as new contributors who bring fresh ideas to the table.
The AGA established its CEAR Program in 1997 in collaboration with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the Chief Financial Officers Council. The program has helped many federal agencies improve accountability through streamlined, effective reporting that clearly demonstrates to taxpayers the agency’s accomplishments and challenges that remain. Only those federal agencies whose reports demonstrate the highest standards of accountability and transparency in communicating results receive the CEAR.
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Christopher Barks Embarks to ICAO
Christopher Barks was named the North America, Central America and Caribbean Regional Director for International Civil Aviation Organization. Barks’ goals for his new role will include re-energizing regional safety to share resources and best practices across countries while building on successes to improve air traffic management, efficiency, security, and resilience in the region. “I will strive to ensure the members of the region are contributing to a reduction in aviation’s impact on the climate, and I will continue to emphasize the need to expand opportunities in aviation and the aerospace sector to all members of society,” Barks said.
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The FAA is asking for public comments on the environmental assessment to replace 31 outdated airport traffic control towers at smaller airports across the country. The FAA has set aside more than $500 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support site evaluation, preparation, and construction activities. They will incorporate key sustainability elements such as all-electric building systems, materials and products free from chemicals known to pose health risks, a thermally efficient façade, high-recycled steel and metal products, renewable mass timber when usable, and ground-source heating and cooling in some environments.
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Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie Issued Lic. #199
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June 30, 1927: The Aeronautics Branch issued Transport License No. 199 to Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, probably the first woman to obtain a pilot license from a civilian agency of the U.S. government. (Other American women had previously received pilot licenses from the Joint Army and Navy Board on Aeronautic Cognizance, which issued civilian flying licenses during 1918-19, as well as from organizations such as the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.) Omlie subsequently received aircraft and mechanic licenses and later became the first women to hold an aviation post in the federal government, as Special Advisor for Air Intelligence to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the predecessor to NASA), and later as Senior Flying Specialist for the Civil Aeronautics Authority. |
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