FAA Budget: Agency Faces Key Management Challenges on Major Issues
(Testimony, 04/19/94, GAO/T-RCED-94-191).

At just more than $8.8 billion, the Federal Aviation Administration's
(FAA) fiscal year 1995 budget request represents a two-percent increase
over the previous year's appropriation. This includes $2.3 billion for
facilities and equipment; $4.6 billion for operations; $1.7 billion for
the Airport Improvement Program; and $267 million for research,
engineering, and development.  About $6.6 billion will be charged to the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the rest charged to the General Fund.
At these levels, expenditures would exceed trust fund receipts from user
fees that are estimated at under $6 billion for fiscal year 1995.  The
fiscal year 1995 budget would continue the trend of drawing down the
trust fund balance.  Against this financial backdrop, FAA faces major
challenges.  How FAA meets them will affect profoundly the nation's
airports and airlines as well as the traveling public.  This testimony
focuses on air traffic control modernization, work force operations in a
period of downsizing, the use of Airport Improvement Program money, and
research and development for detecting explosives.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-94-191
     TITLE:  FAA Budget: Agency Faces Key Management Challenges on Major 
             Issues
      DATE:  04/19/94
   SUBJECT:  Air traffic control systems
             Air transportation operations
             Transportation safety
             Federal procurement
             Cost effectiveness analysis
             Navigation aids
             Human resources training
             Reductions in force
             Facility security
             Mission budgeting
IDENTIFIER:  FAA Airport Improvement Program
             Airport and Airway Trust Fund
             FAA Air Traffic Control Modernization Program
             FAA Advanced Automation System
             FAA Airport Surface Detection Equipment Radar
             FAA Mode S Surveillance System
             FAA Automated Terminal Doppler Radar Warning System
             Military Airport Program
             FAA Air Route Surveillance Radar-4
             FAA Aviation Weather Products Generator
             FAA Integrated Terminal Weather System
             Microwave Landing System
             FAA En Route Air Traffic Control System
             FAA Area Control Computer Complex
             NAVSTAR Global Positioning System
             National Performance Review
             FAA Voice Switching and Control System
             FAA Flight Plan for Training
             FAA Technical Training Management System
             FAA Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System
             Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport (Atlanta, GA)
             Chicago-O'Hare International Airport (Chicago, IL)
             GPS
             
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