# Presentation: 531315

## Air  Traffic Organization 

**Air  Traffic Organization **
**& **
**WSA Update**

**Robert M. Strong, Jr.                                                   Director, Western Service Area, Transition      ATO, Technical Operations                            Federal Aviation Administration**

## A T O

*To improve continuously the safety and*
*efficiency of aviation, while being responsive to*
*our customers and accountable to the public*
**A T O**
-  *Safety.  Service.  Value.*
**Leading Aviation Services**
**into the Future**

- Air  Traffic  Organization

## The ATO Mission

- Deliver the high-quality air traffic services that our customers want
- Provide safe, secure and cost-effective air traffic services that our owners expect, now and into the future
- Create a professional workplace for our employees to excel and be innovative, fostering enthusiasm and pride for our vision and the services we provide
- Be accountable for our performance in providing air traffic services, with clear and specific goals linked to our customers, owners and employees

## Why did we change?

_**Why did we change?**_

- Mandate from Congress to change to a performance based organization
- Historic program cost over runs and poor fiscal discipline
- Respond to changes in the industry and national priorities
- Improve the efficiency and effectiveness in how we use resources
- Implement fiscal discipline
- Meet increasing industry demands in the light of shrinking resources
- Focus on core services

## Why this structure?

- Why  this structure?
_**Why this structure?**_

- Align the organization around our core functions
- Align our cost around the services we provide
- Increase effectiveness and eliminate or reduce redundancies on all levels
- Create a more responsive organization and increase management effectiveness

## Why this structure?

- Reduce layers of management to create a more responsive organization
- Move management closer to the service delivery point
- Build a foundation for future cost management
- Decentralize decision making and financial accountability

- Why  this structure?
_**Why this structure?**_

- Technical Operations

## What is going to be different?

- Fiscal discipline based on Cost Accounting principles
- Fiscal transparency and accountability
- Services are aligned around services provided
- Performance is based on results over process

_**What is going to be different?**_

## How is this better?

- Provides the ability to put the right people in the right place at the right time.
- Helps get decisions made based on corporate-like priorities
- Increases the integrity of the budgeting process
- Restores credibility with Congress and ensures our viability as a government agency

## Western Service Area Overview

_**Western Service Area Overview**_

**  ****Engineering Services:****                              **Engineering/Design & NAS Implementation
**  ****Mission Support:****                                                  **Program Management & Administration
**  ****Technical Services:****                                                    **NAS Services &  Core Business
-    **Safety Management/Quality Assurance:                      **Safety Management, Quality Assurance & Compliance

## Pacific Islands Program

-    HIP SMO will still be focal
-    Engineering Services, Mission Support and Technical Services will collectively support the NAS throughout the Pacific
-    We will continue to make advancements in the NAS and provide cost effective, state-of-the art services and systems.