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The
Organizational Excellence Group
designs and manages a strategy to retain,
develop, and recruit the best available talent to support the Technical Center’s
strategic direction. The office develops policies, programs and strategies
to nurture and develop a workforce capable of achieving and exceeding the
desired business results. This office translates the Center’s strategic
direction into future human capital skill requirements, ensuring availability of
qualified and highly-skilled personnel when needed. In this role, our
staff:
- Establishes human capital management
policy and strategy;
- Creates cultural elements required to
implement the organization’s strategy;
- Oversees the development, implementation
and management of strategic staffing plans;
- Identifies core competencies required to
achieve desired business results and develop strategic competency analysis
plans;
- Develops new recruitment strategies to
support the Technical Center’s strategic direction;
- Fosters collaborative relationships
(diverse employee population, union, contractors, customers, and community
organizations);
- Establishes policies, procedures and
programs to improve morale and individual performance;
- Manage the dynamics of employee
opportunities for personal and professional growth;
- Establish health and safety policy to
foster a healthy and safe workplace.
The
Organizational Excellence Group
is
also responsible for communicating the Technical Center’s strategic direction.
Effective communication is the cornerstone of providing good service to our
internal and external customers. The staff also ensures a consistent
message reflecting the Tech Center’s strategic direction and values is
communicated to Center employees, the public, Congress, and other government
agencies. In this role, our staff:
- Provides leadership in the dissemination
of consistent, timely information to internal and external customers.
- Administers the Privacy Act and Freedom of
Information Act programs for the Technical Center.
- Administers the Community Outreach
Program, the Center Visitor Program, the Speaker’s Bureau, and the Aviation
Education Program.
- Works in consonance with the Center’s
Public Affairs Staff in the dissemination of information to the public.
- Serves as communication liaison with
headquarters; ensure significant, timely information is provided through such
vehicles as the Significant Activities Report and Hot Topics.
- Performs Center suspense management
activities involving the coordination of actions/correspondence and the
guarantee of consistency in the Center’s approach and response.
- Ensures Center directives and comments to
national directives are consistent with each other and with the Center’s
strategies.
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Publications
“Inside the Fence”
is the news source for organizations at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical
Center, including the FAA Technical Center, the Air National Guard, the Coast
Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the South Jersey
Transportation Authority. "Inside the Fence" is produced by the FAA
William J. Hughes Technical Center.
Questions
or comments may be directed to: Stan.Ciurczak@faa.gov
(609) 485-4789
The Editor for the Technical
Center's Intercom is
Stan
Ciurczak at (609) 485-4789
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND
COMMUNICATIONS
"Preserving Tech Center Traditions"
The Office of Organizational Excellence is
leading a project to document the achievements, history and traditions of the
National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC), the FAA Technical
Center and the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center. Called "Preserving Tech
Center Traditions," this project was initiated by the Center's Historian, in
January 2005, to help the Center to begin to prepare to celebrate its 50th
anniversary in July 2008. In addition to traditional historical research of
paper files, research interviews of people who are associated with the Center
will be conducted. As a result of this project, Tech Center history will be
shared with employees and the public through communication vehicles such as the
FAA aviation education program and the Tech Center Intercom.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Stan
Ciurczak at (609) 485-4789
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AVIATION And Space EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Federal Aviation Administration’s
Aviation Education Program is the mechanism by which FAA fulfills our
Congressional Mandate under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, as
amended, Section 301, PL 94-353,49 U.S.C. 1346a.
Because the FAA’s aviation education program is core to the agency’s mission of
maintaining America’s preeminence in world aviation, it is our policy to enhance
our leadership position by creating aviation education programs that support the
growth of aviation through public education.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Mary
Lou Dordan at (609) 485-6493
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The Community Outreach Program is designed
to raise the awareness about the Federal Aviation Administration William J.
Hughes Technical Center, and to explore the potential of community partnership
efforts.
Community Outreach encompasses employees, students, corporations, educational
systems/institutions, aviation users, organization leaders, representatives of
the business community, and the general public. Community Outreach also covers
public and private local, state, regional, and national entities.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Mary
Lou Dordan at (609) 485-6493
SPEAKERS BUREAU
The Speakers Bureau is the Technical
Center’s main communication tool with organizations and groups who want to learn
more about the FAA William J Hughes Technical Center in Pomona, New Jersey.
The Speakers Bureau also links the Technical Center to its customers; the flying
public, the aviation industry, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, pilots, and
other government organizations.
Speakers are available to discuss various
topics including:
- Air Traffic Control
- Aircraft Fire Suppression Research
- Aircraft Safety Communication, Navigation, &
Surveillance
- Airport and Aircraft Safety
- Airport Pavement Research
- Aviation Education
- Aviation Simulation & Human Factors Aviation
Security Research & Development
- Careers in Aviation
- Composite Materials for Aircraft Wind Tunnel
Testing Technology
- Cooperative Research & Development
Agreements
- High Speed Civil Transport
- Small Business Innovative Research Grants
- The National Airspace System Partnerships
with Industry & Government
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is Mary
Lou Dordan at (609) 485-6493
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FAA
INTEGRATED NATIONAL DIRECTORY (FIND)
The FAA Integrated National Directory (FIND)
is the replacement system for the FAA Organizational Directory Update and
Maintenance System. Our office is responsible for maintaining up-to-date data in the
FIND system of employee names along with their building & routing symbols. The
most current facility names, facility codes & location tables, and regional &
facility positions are also maintained in this system.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Carol Alfonso
(609) 485-7055
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DIRECTIVES MANAGEMENT
Directives
Management Web Site
Many draft directives
(Orders and Notices) are routinely sent from Headquarters to the Technical
Center for feedback and/or clarification prior to their final release. Our
office distributes these directives to the appropriate offices for comment, and
ensures that all responses are consistent with each other and with the
strategies of the Technical Center.
The Directive Management Officer (DMO) coordinates this information and prepares
the Clearance Record form for ACT-1’s signature, which is then forwarded to the
Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) at FAA Headquarters.
Internal draft
directives from Technical Center staff and Division offices are processed
through the DMO. Clearance Record forms are used to document coordination and
review by each appropriate office to ensure that the directives are consistent
with other applicable Federal, FAA, and Technical Center directives. The DMO
works with the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) to prepare a final
consolidated package with all comments, responses, final revisions and Clearance
Record forms. The DMO performs a final administrative review of all Orders and
Notices, including supplements and changes and prepares a final version along
with the Clearance Record form for ACT-1's signature.
Once a directive is signed, it is posted in an electronic format on the ACT
Library web site:
http://actlibrary.tc.faa.gov,
under ACT Policy Directives, and an email message is sent to every employee
announcing the posting. Eventually, every Technical Center Directive will be
posted electronically for easy access.
In addition to the
ACT Library web site, FAA has a national Directives Management Information
System (DMIS), which is the official data base for maintaining a log of all FAA
directives. It also contains historical data of previously canceled
directives. To access the DMIS, either click on the DMIS link in the left
column, or go to http://dmis.faa.gov. You are given several
options for accessing the data.
Other links are also
provided for accessing DOT directives and Code of Federal Regulations.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Ken Stroud (609) 485-6565
FORMS MANAGEMENT
Forms
Management Web Site
Our office provides
assistance to all staffs and divisions to update and improve Technical Center
forms. A form used by more than on office or by the public will not be
reproduced unless instructions are contained in an FAA directive (in accordance
with FAA Order 1330.1A). When such forms are revised, the prescribed directives
will be reviewed and revised as required. We make recommendations and
coordinate any changes with the graphics and print shop specialists to redesign
and produce new forms, as required.
Official Technical
Center forms can be found in electronic version at this web site:
http://intraweb.tc.faa.gov/forms/index.
There is also an
official FAA forms web site for public use forms. Go to the FAA home web page
at:
http://www.faa.gov, then click on Access FAA
Forms. Each form has an "i" icon next to the form number, which when clicked
will provide needed information and instructions about the form.
In addition, you
can find FAA job application forms Human Resource official forms on this web
site: http://jobs.faa.gov/ApplicationForms.asp
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Ken Stroud (609) 485-6565
ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Organizational Management Web Site
Our office
provides editorial assistance to all Technical Center offices with their
re-organizational change requirements and associated Determination Orders,
organizational charts, new mission and function statements, organizational
Expenditure Code Approval and Maintenance Request Form submissions, etc.
Changes to FAA Order 1100.5C, Chapter 16, are coordinated by our office whenever
division level and above reorganizations are made. Changes to TC Order 1100.7
are coordinated by our office whenever reorganizations are made below division
levels.
The point of contact for the Technical
Center is
Ken Stroud (609) 485-6565
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FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION ACT
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),
enacted in 1966, established a statutory right of access to agency records,
unless those records are specifically exempted from disclosure or specifically
excluded in the FOIA. The Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation
Administration’s policy is to make information available to the public to the
greatest extent possible.
All FOIA requests for records at the William J. Hughes Technical Center should
be forwarded to:
FOIA Coordinator
William J. Hughes Technical Center
Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405
A FOIA request may be made by any person,
which encompasses individuals (including foreign citizens), partnerships,
corporations, associations, and foreign and domestic governments. The request
must be in writing, and should thoroughly describe the record(s) being sought.
The requester is assessed a fee for processing FOIA requests as prescribed by
regulation. The fee categories are:
1) Commercial
2) Educational or noncommercial scientific
institutions
3) News media
4) All other requests
The agency does not have the authority to
waive or reduce the fees for processing a FOIA request unless the statutory fee
waiver requirements have been met.
The law requires an initial determination, regarding the release of the records,
be made within 20 working days from the date the request is received by the
appropriate FOIA office of the agency in possession of the records.
FAA Washington Headquarters FOIA
web page
For general information, please call our Technical Center Operator at
(609) 485-4000.
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INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS
Our office prepares internal communications
material, including white papers, briefing materials, speeches, etc. for
Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) members. Our office also drafts communications
bulletins, significant activity reports, and various other documents to keep
employees informed of current issues at the Technical Center.
The point of contact for the
Technical Center is Peter
Castellano (609) 485-5915 or
Stan
Ciurczak (609) 485-4789
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PRIVACY ACT
The United States Congress has been
concerned that the privacy of individuals has been endangered by the increasing
use of computers and sophisticated collection and dissemination of information
technology by Federal agencies. The Privacy Act provides specific safeguards
for individuals against unwarranted invasions of privacy by requiring all
Federal agencies to adhere to certain standards for collecting, maintaining,
using, and/or disseminating information of a personal nature about individuals.
The points of contact for the
Technical Center are:
Peter
Castellano (609) 485-5915 or
Barbara Harris-Para (609) 485-4854
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Model Work
Place (MWP)
We are committed to create
an environment where people can do their best work, and that means building a
global organization in which differences are respected and valued. These
differences can create successful relations for ourselves and with our clients.
The FAA believes in fostering an environment that offers the greatest
opportunity for everyone, ensuring the full utilization of the work force while
reducing barriers to opportunity.
Ray is the
Technical Center's representative for the ATO-P MWP Committee.
The point of contact for the
Technical Center is
Ray
Stover (609) 485-4404.
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