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Aviation Certification: FAA Should Evaluate Effectiveness of the International Validation Process

GAO-24-106040
Jan 10, 2024
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4 Open Recommendations
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should establish quantifiable goals for the international validations process. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should identify the quality information and performance metrics the agency needs to track progress toward the goals it identifies for the international validations process and how it will collect that information, which may include changes to agency data systems or dashboards. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should use the information FAA collects to assess the results of and inform decisions about any needed improvements to the international validations process. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should establish a time frame and develop an action plan for FAA's efforts to develop its approach for assessing the international validations process. (Recommendation 4)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program

GAO-24-106378
Jan 10, 2024
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that Office of the Secretary officials establish quality control procedures to verify that the conflict-of-interest screening and eligibility determination documentation is complete for Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program applications. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should clearly define, in the Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program evaluation plan and Notice of Funding Opportunity, how an application may qualify as an "exemplary project of national or regional significance that generates significant benefits in one of the project outcome areas." (Recommendation 2)
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Commercial Space Transportation: FAA Should Improve Its Mishap Investigation Process

GAO-24-105561
Dec 07, 2023
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should direct the Office of Commercial Space Transportation to develop criteria for determining when the agency will authorize a launch operator to lead a mishap investigation on FAA's behalf. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should direct the Office of Commercial Space Transportation to comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness of the office's mishap investigation process. (Recommendation 2)
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Air Traffic Control Modernization: Program Management Improvements Could Help FAA Address NextGen Delays and Challenges

GAO-24-105254
Nov 09, 2023
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4 Open Recommendations
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Federal Aviation Administration The FAA Administrator should develop an updated life-cycle cost estimate for NextGen, measure FAA's performance against it, and create a schedule for updating the life-cycle cost estimate regularly. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Aviation Administration The FAA Administrator should develop and document a detailed risk mitigation plan focused on NextGen, which outlines how FAA identifies and prioritizes high-level risks to the NextGen program, provides alternatives for mitigation, and provides a rationale for the selected mitigation approaches. (Recommendation 2)
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Federal Aviation Administration The FAA Administrator should ensure that its Acquisition Management System policy includes a requirement to conduct root cause analyses on individual NextGen programs that exceed a specific threshold of cost, schedule, or performance variance and when the program is rebaselined. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Aviation Administration The FAA Administrator should include information in future NextGen Performance and Accountability reports to make clear which individual programs within NextGen are awaiting or have received revised cost, schedule, and performance goals, as well as those that FAA does not intend to rebaseline. (Recommendation 4)
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