The Information, Data, and Technology (IDT) Law Division (AGC-400) is one of several AGC foundational legal practice areas, and a legal expert for the FAA in all matters relating to information law, including the provision of legal counsel, training, and litigation services that fall under 400’s legal portfolio.  The FAA’s safety mission is data-driven, and AGC-400 provides legal guidance and roadmaps for how the Agency manages and safeguards the data and information it generates, collects, maintains, and shares across the FAA’s LOBs and SOs and with interagency partners, industry, stakeholders and the public-at-large. AGC-400 also serves as the backbone to FAA-grown/sponsored outward innovation and the integration of emerging technology.

The IDT Law Division—which includes the Innovation, Integration, and Intellectual Property Team; the Information Law Team; and the Information and Registry Management Team—provides legal counsel and services in a wide range of matters including those related to the following:

• Voluntary Safety Reporting Programs
• Artificial Intelligence 
• Freedom of Information Act 
• Federal Advisory Committee Act
• Privacy
• Litigation holds
• Records management
• Nondisclosure agreements
• Information system governance and information security
• Data sharing agreements
• Research and development transactions
• Innovation and emerging technologies advice and transactions
• Transactions that incorporate commercial space, unmanned aircraft systems, Advanced Air Mobility, and other emergent technologies into the National Airspace System
• Technology transfers
• Intellectual Property – Patents, trademarks and copyright
• Data rights,  trade secrets
• Legal advice and services to support aircraft and airmen registration.

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