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Technical Center Training – Enhancing our Technical Stature
By Roxy Mays
The Technical Center is continuing to realize its vision of being a world leader in aviation technology. A component of this stature is a well-trained workforce. Under the Air Traffic Organization’s “organizational excellence” goal, the Technical Center is pursuing a workforce development initiative to ensure our professional and support staff under the Vice President for Operations Planning (ATO-P) maintains currency and competency in basic skills and develop new ones as demanded by emerging technology and operating practices.
Various Center employees have conducted needs assessments, researched sources and costs to fulfill the needs, and requested and obtained supplemental funding to implement educational and training activities to achieve the workforce development initiative. To make employees aware of and available to participate in the scheduled activities, the Organizational Excellence Group and the Acquisition Workforce Council have jointly prepared and will update and publish the “ATO-P Technical Center Training Calendar” on a frequent basis.
Employees should discuss their interest in attending any of the published educational and training events with their manager and coordinate with their respective training coordinator when official calls for enrollment/participants are issued.
The following courses have been scheduled:
| Contract Management for CORs/COTRs (Slots Allocated – 30 Participants) |
| Three-Day Course on May 22, 23 and 24, 2007 Time: 0830 – 1600 (4:00 pm) |
| Location: HR Training Room |
| Throughout the course, attendees will learn to apply core responsibilities and how they apply to contract management; identify key requirements and clauses under FAA AMS that affect technical reviews and inputs; take appropriate action to develop a sound and ethical business relationship with the contractor; plan for quality and schedule assurance of the contractor’s performance; identify common areas of direction authority and practical steps and safeguards for issuing directions; distinguish between their authority to technically direct the contractor’s performance versus the need to work through the Contracting Officer; Identify areas of assistance and input to placing task orders, modifying or terminating contracts, and reviewing contractor requests for equitable adjustment; and know how to perform invoice review on fixed price and cost type contracts. |
| Target Audience: AJP 7000 Federal Employees Assigned as COTR or Alternate COTR Currently Working on Active Contracts and Have Not Received Training |
| POC: Roxie.Mays@faa.gov or ext 4206 |
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| Key Ingredients of System Engineering Course (Details in Progress) |
| Two Day Course in June 2007 0800 - 1630 |
| Location: CVA Conference Room |
| The course provides an overview of the system engineering process as defined by the FAA System Engineering Council; defines each of the basic elements in the system engineering process; describes how system engineering fits into AMS; and applies consistent methodology and tools for using system engineering principles across a system’s Life cycle. |
| Target Audience: ATO Federal Employees |
| POC: Roxie.Mays@faa.gov or ext 4206 |
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| Intro to FAA Risk Management Course (Details in Progress) |
| Two Day Course in June 2007 0800 - 1630 |
| Location: CVA Conference Room |
| The course provides detailed step-by-step training of the risk management process. This training takes a participant through the entire process, both as a practitioner and as management. The participant will learn how to create the work products that are generated from the risk management process, which products are to be delivered and how they are to be used for decision making (especially AMS investment decisions and OMB Exhibit 300). |
| Target Audience: ATO Federal Employees |
| POC: Roxie.Mays@faa.gov or ext 4206 |
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