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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.

Security and Intelligence Organization

Safeguards civil aviation through national threat intelligence, counter-intelligence operations, facility and personnel security, background investigations, and agency crisis response.

Office of Advanced Aviation Technologies

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).

Aviation Safety Management Office

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.

Strategy and Engagement Organization

Drives agency strategic planning, international civil aviation diplomacy, congressional relations, national public communications, rulemaking governance, and nine regional office operations.

Administration and Finance Office

Directs agency-wide financial management, budget formulation and fiscal execution, national acquisition programs, enterprise IT solutions, and comprehensive administrative operations.

Airspace Modernization Office

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.

Air Traffic Organization

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.

Office of Information & Technology

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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:

  • Strategy & Performance
  • Mission Partnership
  • Solution Delivery
  • Infrastructure & Operations
  • Information Security & Privacy