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- Federal Agency Accelerates Aviation Rulemaking With Global Knowledge Management Network
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA Aircraft Evaluation Groups AEG establishes operational safety criteria for new and modified aircraft and manages aircraft suitability safety processes. In preparation for ISO certification, the AEG needed to accelerate airworthiness reviews and streamline external industry collaboration on aircraft maintenance and certification. The FAA deployed Knowledge...
- Tags: FAA, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Network, Agency, Knowledge, Aircraft, Federal Aviation Administration Aircraft Evaluation Groups, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management
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- A Hurricane-Response Unit Uses MindManager to Quickly Get Damaged Commercial Airports Up and Running
- The Federal Aviation Administration's FAA National Field Incident Response consists of a rapid-response team that assembles during hurricane season to assess and repair damage to the airports and air-traffic management systems that the FAA oversees and maintains. The challenge was to keep track of a mountain of information about hurricane...
- Tags: FAA, Hurricane, Team Management, Management
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- The FAA Improves Incident Response Time and Regulatory Processes
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control system. The FAA needed new processes and technologies for improving event response, reducing time and cost to create new regulations,...
- Tags: FAA, Incident Response, Air Traffic Control, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Regulations, Strategy, Manufacturing, Government, Management
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- FAA Maps the Skies With Oracle
- Aviation System Standards, a department within the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration FAA, produces more than 10 million individual national airspace charting products per year for use by military, commercial and private aviators. The FAA chose Oracle products to support automating the instrument procedure development and distribution process to produce superior...
- Tags: FAA, Oracle Corp., Application Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- NISPOM requirement: Windows Session Controls
- NISPOM requires (8-609-b1) that "if the IS supports multiple logon sessions for each user ID or account, the IS shall provide a protected capability to control the number of logon sessions for each user ID, account, or specific port of entry. The IS default shall be a single logon session."But...
- Tags: FAA, logon session, NISPOM, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Leading the Way in the Development of a Cost-Effective, High-Performance Jet
- Aviation Technology Group wanted to create a civilian aircraft that performs like a military fighter. Keep the cost of the plane as low as possible and obtain FAA certification. One of the main challenges facing ATG has been coordinating development efforts with its global supplier base. ATG chose the Teamcenter...
- Tags: FAA, ATG, Lifecycle Management, Siemens AG, High-performance, Teamcenter Software, Channel Management, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Faster planes + overtaxed tech = longer flights
- There's a reason why aerial WiFi's getting popular, with tests even by the rapidly expanding budget carrier Southwest Airlines in the works: Atrociously awful air travel. A Wall Street Journal article this week reports Planes Are Faster and Navigation Better, but Airlines Are Padding Schedules Even More as Congestion...
- Tags: FAA, Flight, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- FAA to Create Safety Training Tools 75 Percent Faster With New Collaboration Tools
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for moving air traffic safely and efficiently in the United States. When an incident occurs on a runway, the Air Traffic Organization ATO division of the FAA re-creates the event in digital animation format. Each animation can take up to 12 weeks to...
- Tags: FAA, Collaboration, Animation, Microsoft Corp., Training, Collaboration Tool, Tool
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Next-Generation Digital Mockup and Validation Capabilities Compress Development and Permit an Unprecedented Level of Design Optimization
- Eclipse Aviation wanted to deliver a completely new - industry-changing - aircraft and Control costs so company is profitable with jet price of $1.3 million to meet FAA requirements. Manage all aircraft information from a single repository. The company deployed Siemens compress design cycle by optimizing aircraft and factory in...
- Tags: FAA, Optimization, Siemens AG, Aircraft, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2006-04-01
- The FAA Improves Response Time and Regulatory Processes
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. The FAA controls approximately 200,000 takeoffs and landings per day and moves nearly 700 million commercial air passengers per year. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control...
- Tags: FAA, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Regulations, Strategy, Manufacturing, Government, Management
- Case studies 2005-12-19
- Evaluations of Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS): Sana's Primary Response and Cisco's Cisco Security Agent
- As part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) "Intrusion Quarantine" project, the MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development CAASD conducted an evaluation of two products, Sana's Primary Response and Cisco's Cisco Security Agent CSA. These two products were selected as examples of Host-based Intrusion Prevention System HIPS technology...
- Tags: FAA, Intrusion Prevention System, Agent, Mitre Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Intrusion Prevention, Real Estate, Security, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-20
- Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts
- FAA has taken steps to develop an enterprise architecture through two architecture projects that are intended to cover its two core business areas - NAS operations and non-NAS administrative and mission-support operations. However, it has yet to establish most of the key management structures, processes, and controls that are necessary...
- Tags: FAA, General Accounting Office, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2005-04-29
- Tech beyond black boxes? It just won't fly
- article root[Edited by: admin on Aug 19, 2005 10:52 AM]It takes death and disillusionment to institute changeIt takes deaths and disillusionment with a system that has needed overhaul to keep with the technology of the times, to make a change for the better of man kind.So Y2k wasn't everything the...
- Tags: black box, FAA
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
Additional Resources
- Airport Status (widget)
- Displays FAA-reported status (such as delays, shutdowns, and weather incidents) for major airports in the US. A preferences option allows filtering for a specific airport.
- Tags: Airport, Status, Preferences Option
- Software downloads 2007-03-26
- Pumping up the space industry
- Correct link to the photo galleryRockets, space elevators aim at X Prize Cuphttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-34963.htmlFAAIn the fifth paragraph, I believe you meant to call it the Federal Aviation Administration.
- Tags: Sonja Thompson, rockets, off-topic, space, news, industry
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- Fast Development for a Rugged Plane
- Quest Aircraft Company has designed a new 10-place single engine utility turboprop airplane known as the Kodiak. This is a plane that's specifically designed to go places other planes can't. Quest Aircraft Company wanted to achieve FAA certification and begin selling planes. The company deployed easy-to-learn finite element analysis software....
- Tags: Plane, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- New Airplane Design Requires Full Range of CAD Functionality at Affordable Price
- Adam Aircraft's A500 airplane differs from other twin engine planes in two important ways. Adam Aircraft wanted to hold down development costs and meet rigorous requirements for FAA certification as quickly as possible. The challenge was to find CAD software that can be widely applied, including some licenses for high-end...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Aircraft, Programming, Modeling, CAD, Research & Development, Aerospace & Defense, Software, Business Operations, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Citizen Relationship Management (ZRM) - The Challenge and the Promise
- Citizen Relationship Management holds out the promise of a much more effective, efficient and simple government at the service of its citizens. ZRM borrows heavily from Customer Relationship Management CRM. The latter has been defined as "customer-centric business strategies that optimize the long-term value of selected customers." Citizen Relationship Management...
- Tags: Personalization, CRM, ZRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Government, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
- White papers 2005-08-09
- Is our power grid vulnerable to cyberattacks?
- On Jan. 22, 2008, the CIA reported that hackers had caused a power outage that ended up affecting multiple cities outside the United States. There was no announcement of responsibility, but there was evidence that an extortion attempt had been made by the hackers who gained control of the...
- Tags: Grid, Cyberattack, Hacking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Electronic Document Management System Automates Review Process, Enables Compliance, and Slashes Maintenance Costs
- United Airlines is the second-largest air carrier in the world, with 3,400 daily flights to more than 680 locations around the globe. United wanted to maintain compliance while gaining better control over versioning, improving the legibility of documents used in the field, and providing secure access to maintenance documents over...
- Tags: Compliance, Documentum, United Airlines, Document Management System, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Hardware
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