FAA Budget: Management Attention Needed for Future Investment Decisions
(Testimony, 04/21/94, GAO/T-RCED-94-195).

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-94-195
     TITLE:  FAA Budget: Management Attention Needed for Future 
             Investment Decisions
      DATE:  04/21/94
   SUBJECT:  Air transportation operations
             Mission budgeting
             Transportation safety
             Funds management
             Future budget projections
             Agency missions
             Air traffic control systems
             Appropriated funds
             Facility security
             Terrorism
IDENTIFIER:  FAA Air Traffic Control Modernization Program
             FAA Airport Improvement Program
             Airport and Airway Trust Fund
             Military Airport Program
             FAA Advanced Automation System
             FAA Airport Surface Detection Equipment Radar
             FAA Mode S Surveillance System
             FAA Air Route Surveillance Radar-3 Long-Range Radar System
             FAA Air Route Surveillance Radar-4
             FAA Automated Terminal Doppler Radar Warning System
             FAA Passenger Facility Charge Program
             FAA Voice Switching and Control System
             Microwave Landing System
             FAA Initial Sector Suite System
             FAA En Route Air Traffic Control System
             NAVSTAR Global Positioning System
             GPS
             
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