Mr. Mark DeNicuolo is the Vice President of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Program Management Organization (PMO) within the Air Traffic Organization (ATO). The PMO provides program and acquisition management for the FAA infrastructure programs that transform, modernize and sustain the National Airspace System (NAS), including Air Traffic Operations, Mission Support Systems and Business support systems.

The PMO also holds responsibility for service life extensions to legacy NAS sensors, communications and navigation aids. Given the tight coupling between successful automation program delivery and current system operation, the PMO also leads and manages second-level automation engineering efforts. Lastly, the PMO works with FAA operations and aviation users to ensure globally interoperable NextGen solutions.

Mark assumed the position of Vice President in September 2021 after serving as Acting Vice President for six months. Prior to being named Vice President, he served as Deputy Vice President for more than two years. 

Before joining the PMO, Mark served as the Director of Safety, where he was responsible for ensuring NAS safety through reporting, mitigating and monitoring risk. This included establishing the ATO’s policies on runway safety, Safety Management Systems, voluntary safety reporting programs, safety promotion, quality assurance and quality control. Under Mark’s leadership, the directorate would convert safety and quality data into actionable information to identify trends and risks in the airspace, provide high-level oversight of investigations and establish policy on independent verification and validation of safety issues and incidents. In this role, he also served as a key FAA representative on air traffic safety issues with global safety organizations, interagency/industry committees and employee unions.

Mark has also served as the Director of Policy and Performance. In that role, he served as the steward of the ATO's safety data and Safety Management System. Under his leadership, the directorate ensured that national safety management policies were clearly defined, communicated and followed. The directorate was responsible for audits and operational assessments of air traffic operations, technical operations, NAS changes and new technologies, and also provided safety analyses and data management capabilities. Additionally, the directorate served as the ATO's international focal point for safety activities related to Air Navigation Service provision, as well as for safety analyses related to new entrants into the NAS, such as commercial space launches and unmanned aircraft systems.

Mark has been with the FAA since 1992 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.