# Presentation: 778184

## ATOSAir Transportation Oversight System

**ATOS**Air Transportation Oversight System

- Presented to: 2008 AFS Leadership Conference
- By: David Gilliom
- Date: August 28, 2008

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Hi, my name is _______________ . I am a (your title) from (your office). I am also a SASO Program outreach volunteer. 

I became a volunteer because ______.  

I’m here today to talk about the System Approach for Safety Oversight Program, SASO. One of my goals as an outreach volunteer is to travel around to various offices and give this briefing. The Team’s goal is to reach at least 75% of the employees in each office. In FY 06, the Outreach Team visited 109 Flight Standards offices and briefed them on SASO. This year, our outreach goals expanded to include the Headquarters and international offices. We also plan to visit all the field offices again with updated information on SASO and pilot projects. With that being said, I’d appreciate if everyone introduced himself so we can get better acquainted. (Do introductions.)

## SASO System ApproachFor Safety Oversight

**SASO**** **System ApproachFor Safety Oversight

- Presented to: 2008 AFS Leadership Conference
- By: Dennis Niemeier
- Date: August 28, 2008

**Flight Standards Service (AFS)**
**Safety Assurance System (SAS)**
**Requirements Briefing**

**Notes:**
Presentation last updated in December of 2006. 
This presentation requires minor modifications before you can show it to your audience.  You will need to add:
the Audience and your Name on the first slide (the dates on the cover slide and footer will be updated automatically.)  
your Contact Information on the slide “Points of Contacts”.
In addition to the modifications above, you may delete slides labeled “optional”.  Please note that you may only delete slides labeled “optional” and may not change content of other slides (other than required additions above), and you may not add any slides.  These restrictions are in place to ensure that key messages delivered across our organization are consistent and accurate. Text that appears in the note pages that are not italicized are your suggested talking points. Please make sure you read these points in advance, that you are prepared to expand and discuss each point with your audience, and that you have your own examples to add to all slides.  Please rehearse the presentation in advance and feel free to use any white space in the note pages for your own personal notes. 
Recommendation: start by describing to the audience your role in the Outreach Volunteer program and your reasons for getting involved.

Hi, my name is _______________ . I am a (your title) from (your office). I am also a SASO Program outreach volunteer. 

I became a volunteer because ______.  

I’m here today to talk about the System Approach for Safety Oversight Program, SASO. One of my goals as an outreach volunteer is to travel around to various offices and give this briefing. The Team’s goal is to reach at least 75% of the employees in each office. In FY 06, the Outreach Team visited 109 Flight Standards offices and briefed them on SASO. This year, our outreach goals expanded to include the Headquarters and international offices. We also plan to visit all the field offices again with updated information on SASO and pilot projects. With that being said, I’d appreciate if everyone introduced himself so we can get better acquainted. (Do introductions.)

## Agenda

**AFS Safety Assurance System**
**Background**
**Underlying Concepts**
**SAS Primary Functional Areas**
**Requirements Highlights**

## AFS Safety Assurance System

**AFS implementation of the AVS SMS safety assurance pillar**
**AFS system to support the following mission elements:**
- Certification
- Surveillance
- Resolution of safety concerns
**AFS system-of-systems to align the following:**
- ATOS, SPAS, FSIMS, WebOps, PTRS
- AQS-200 Service Oriented Architecture components
- AQS-200 Standard Data Reference Tables

## Background

**AFS SAS requirements based upon:**
- ICAO SMS Guidance
- AVS SMS Doctrine, Order 8000.1
- AFS Oversight Doctrine
**AFS SAS requirements developed by:**
- AFS-30, AFS-900, AFS-200, AFS-300
- SASO Contractors
- BAE Systems
- Booz-Allen Hamilton

## Document Statistics

**Table of Contents***
- Section 1 – Background
- Section 2 – Operational Concepts
- Section 3 – Technical Requirements
- Section 4 – Physical Integration
- Section 5 – Functional Integration
- Section 6 – Human Integration
- Section 7 – Security
- Section 8 – In-Service Support
- Section 9 – Test and Evaluation
- Section 10 – Implementation and Transition
- Section 11 – Quality Assurance
- Section 12 – Configuration Management
- Section 13 – In-Service Management
- Section 14 – System Safety Management
- Appendix A – CFR Part Unique Requirements
- Appendix B - Acronyms
- Appendix C - Glossary

**** Formatted in accordance with FAA AMS Guidance***

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*** ******3 Appendices ***
*** ******118 pages***
*** ******827 requirements***
*** ******93 reviewers***
*** ******1,610 comments***

## SMS Pillars (Components)

**Safety Assurance**
**Safety Risk Management**
**Safety Promotion**
**Safety Policy**

## System Model

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- Manage
- Repair
- Station
- Operations

**Create Model**

**Edit Model**

**Edit Profile**

**Save Profile**

**Prepare Reports**

**Select Certificate**

**Save Model**

**Create Profile**

**More......**

**Class: ****Medium**** (10-50 Employees)**

- Perform
- Quality
- Audits

**Perform**
**Maintenance**

- Train &
- Develop
- Personnel

- Provide
- Repair
- Station
- Resources

**CONFIGURATION**

- Manage
- Safety

- Perform
- Repair

- Perform
- Test &
- Evaluation

- Provide
- Maintenance
- Resources

- Manage
- Maintenance

**Perform**
**Inspection**

**System**
**Level**

**Subsystem**
**Level**

**Certificate &**
**Op Specs**

**Applicable**
**Regulations**

**Airworthiness**
**Directives**

**Advisory**
**Circulars**

**Handbook**
**References**

*Click Box to Select System/Subsystem*

**PLANNING**

**RESOURCE**
**MANAGEMENT**

**DATA**
**COLLECTION**

**ANALYSIS**
**ASSESS, ACTION**

***Select Function***

**System Model**

## Safety Assurance Model

**Data**
**Collection**

**Data**
**Collection**

**Resource**
**Management**

**Analysis **
**Assessment**
**Action**

**Configuration**

**Planning**

- Design
- Assessment

- Performance
- Assessment

**Resource**
**Management**

**Analysis **
**Assessment**
**Action**

**Planning**

## SAS Primary Functional Areas

- Configuration: *Describing, documenting, analyzing, and modeling certificate holder systems, operational specifications, and environment*
- Planning: *Identifying, scheduling, and prioritizing oversight activities*
- Resource Management: *Allocating personnel/funds to oversight activities and tracking/reporting actual work performed*
- Data Collection: *Capture, organization, and management of safety data obtained via inspection, requirement, and voluntary submission*
- Analysis, Assessment, Action: *Analyzing the design, performance, and risk of certificate holder systems; assessing acceptability of the risk; and tracking, verifying, and validating certificate holder risk actions to mitigate the risk*

## Requirements Highlights

- Configuration
- Describes applicant/certificate holder in detail
- Organizes applicant/certificate holder information into a systems model;
- Maps applicable regulations, guidance, directives, policies, procedures, and operating specifications to the system model;
- Populates system model with initial hazard and risk trend data analyzed at the national level; and
- Generates parameters (system profile) used to scale planning and data collection tools to the size, scope, and complexity of the applicant/certificate holder

## Requirements Highlights  “continued”

- Planning
- Generates plans to conduct data collection, analysis, and assessment;
- Scales the plans in accordance with the system profile;
- Prioritizes the schedule of activities in accordance with risk;
- Facilitates inspector tailoring of plans;
- Flags overdue activities; and
- Reports on planned vs. actual activities.

## Requirements Highlights  “continued”

- Resource Management
- Allocates personnel and funds to planned activities;
- Balances resource utilization across individuals and organizations;
- Manages resource sharing across AFS organizational levels;
- Prioritizes the allocation/assignment of resources based on risk;
- Monitors and reports on schedules and resource utilization by
- SAS function/sub-function;
- Certificate
- Individual
- AFS Organizational Level (FSDO/CMO, Regional, National)
- Identifies resource shortfalls; and
- Estimates the resources required in the future budget years.

## Requirements Highlights  “continued”

- Data Collection
- Collects the data required to support design, performance and risk assessment;
- Organizes applicant/certificate holder data by system and subsystem;
- Scales data collection tools using system profile data;
- Captures data in near-real-time, using mobile computing devices;
- Documents observations of unrelated safety issues found during data collection activities;
- Audits data from entry to archive; and
- Prevents unauthorized data manipulation

## Requirements Highlights  “continued”

- Analysis, Assessment, Action
- Evaluates the capability and maturity of the applicant/certificate holder Safety Management System (SMS);
- Identifies hazard(s) in applicant/certificate holder systems;
- Analyzes risk as the product of likelihood and severity of adverse outcomes for each hazard;
- Assesses whether the risk(s) associated with the hazard(s) is acceptable or unacceptable;
- Verifies and validates applicant/certificate holder risk mitigation plans, actions, and results;
- Summarizes and reports risk and mitigation results across AFS organizational levels
- Invokes investigation and enforcement actions as required.

## Requirements Highlights  “continued”

- Characteristics and Performance
- Supports oversight of applicants/certificate holders in CFR Parts 121, 135, and 145;
- Accommodates all sizes of certificate holders from the largest to the smallest;
- Expands to accommodate certificate holders in other CFR Parts without significant redesign;
- Adapts to changes in regulation and technology without significant redesign
- Provides the general public with a level of aviation safety equal to or greater than current AFS oversight systems.
- Costs less to operate and maintain than current AFS oversight systems