United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-11-30 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:GAO-02-127R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R P0b002ee18037f3d6 f:d02127r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R GAO-02-127R Aircraft maintenance Maintenance standards Quality control FAA National Airspace System Plan FAA Corporate Maintenance Philosophy Program FAA Maintenance Management System Correspondence A02530 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) adopted a pilot program in 1997, known as the Corporate Maintenance Philosophy, that reduced the frequency of periodic maintenance and certification in FAA's Alaskan Region. In 2001, the Federal Labor Relations Authority ruled that FAA must revert back to the national maintenance and certification standards in the Alaskan Region because it had not negotiated an extension of the pilot program with it's unions. FAA's Alaskan Region has not fully returned to the national standards, but FAA officials believe that the transition will be completed by January 1, 2002. Seven of 12 locations had finished updating maintenance and certification information into FAA's computerized maintenance management system (MMS) by the October 1, 2001, deadline. In several locations where MMS had been updated, however, the standards that incorporated were not subjected to quality control checks. GAO was unable to determine whether periodic maintenance conducted in certain areas has been performed with the frequency required by the national guidelines. FAA is hiring additional staff to perform maintenance and certifications and will appoint managers to check the accuracy of MMS data. The process of certifying equipment to ensure that it functions according to national standards had been more than 90 percent complete as of August 2001, according to FAA officials. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R.pdf GAO-02-127R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-127R Correspondence GAO-02-127R; National Airspace System: Incomplete Transition Back to National Maintenance and Certification Standards in the Federal Aviation Administration's Alaskan Region; Aircraft maintenance Maintenance standards Quality control FAA National Airspace System Plan FAA Corporate Maintenance Philosophy Program FAA Maintenance Management System