Commercial Space Transportation Organization
Regulates and facilitates the U.S. commercial space transportation industry, licensing commercial rocket launches, reentries, and spaceports while protecting public safety and property.
Regulates and facilitates the U.S. commercial space transportation industry, licensing commercial rocket launches, reentries, and spaceports while protecting public safety and property.
Safeguards civil aviation through national threat intelligence, counter-intelligence operations, facility and personnel security, background investigations, and agency crisis response.
Establishes airworthiness standards, certifies aircraft design and manufacturing, enforces flight standards, and oversees safety licensing for pilots, flight crews, and aviation maintenance organizations.
Spearheads research, regulatory integration, and operational policy for emerging aerospace technologies including Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).
Champions the agency's internal Safety Management System (SMS), managing enterprise-wide risk assessment, proactive hazard identification, and safety governance across all FAA lines of business.
Drives agency strategic planning, international civil aviation diplomacy, congressional relations, national public communications, rulemaking governance, and nine regional office operations.
Directs agency-wide financial management, budget formulation and fiscal execution, national acquisition programs, enterprise IT solutions, and comprehensive administrative operations.
Leads the strategic evolution and national deployment of modern airspace infrastructure, NextGen initiatives, trajectory-based flight operations, and advanced digital communications for the next century of flight.
Operates the world's safest and most complex air traffic control system, providing 24/7 air navigation, radar surveillance, airspace management, and aeronautical information services across more than 29 million square miles of airspace.
The Assistant Administrator for Information & Technology is the FAA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CIO is the principal adviser to the Administrator and to FAA organizations on matters involving IT management and governance and has primary FAA oversight responsibility for all Agency IT investments.
The Office of Information & Technology provides the following services: