All,

Just a quick note to provide a great link to an explanation of benefits for newly hired air traffic controllers.

New ATC Benefit Explanation

A public thank you to Mark Miller for lead! Do you have a great resource? If so, send it along and we'll post it here.

Are you looking for information about your new facility? Do you have a facility guide you would like to share here?

The Leading Edge Forum for New Hires has a wealth of information to share and plenty of room for more. Did you know....

• we have facility guides for over 80% of our Enroute facilities
• we have facility guides for over 75 Terminal facilities (including most large TRACONS
• we can and will post information about your facility if you get it to us

Take a moment to check out our Facility Guides page found here or through the link in our right-hand navigation pane.

All of this applies to the Tech Ops world as well....we want you and your new hires to have this site as a resource as well.

Thanks to all and if you have thoughts or a request, please let us know!

So you're in the door and want to go places one day in the ATO. I would strongly recommend you visit the FAA's online learning portal, ELMS. This interactive learning community is ideal for managers and employees to organize their learning activities, document your learning history, and strategically map an individual development plan.

Manager's can track the learning history of their employees, assign required training, and help improve employee development through various career oriented templates such as the IDP. Employee's can explore a wide variety of instructional materials designed to reinforce previous training or access management and leadership modules for future aspirations.

I encourage you to jump-start your career with a visit to the Electronic Learning Management System.

Greetings,

We've been busy around here with a little housekeeping. In fact we’ve migrated to a new server so if you recognize any problems let us know. Also, we have experienced a lot of new traffic to the site. We welcome the new faces and your commentary, thanks for visiting.

Along with Brian Harmelink and the Meet and Greet Staff, we would like to extend a hearty handshake to our newest Employees to the FAA, enjoy the experience...

• The Air Traffic Organization announced extensive leadership changes to complement its executive council and keep the organization forward-looking in an era of economic crisis and technological opportunity.

• ATO Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski sat down with Jerry Lavey this week to discuss a variety of issues, including the rationale behind the latest personnel moves in the ATO, the ATSAP and FAM programs, labor relations, and the latest on NextGen.

High Speed

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• Don’t know if you have seen this story yet: Like Father, like Son, and Son, and Son. Sean Lepeard and his father Vance Lepeard both work at Memphis Center

• The FAA Today 2/26/09 shows across the board we are performing in the green on Rwy Incursions, Airport Capacity, System Efficiency, and On-Time Gate Arrivals. Nationally we are 15 over in the OE category.

• From the AP, Airline crashes are becoming more survivable.

• Continued security upgrades keep coming to combat future hacking attempts.

• The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey launched a lobbying effort on Wednesday aimed at getting Congress to fund a $22 billion upgrade to the nation’s air traffic control system.

Link: http://videoontheweb.faa.gov/interviews/2009_webcasts/ATO-COO-Update-Jan2009-HS.asx

From time to time, you run across stories that directly involve your future. In the next few weeks I would make it a priority to get this feed as we continue to see many changes in our organization. The interviewer, Mr. Jerry Lavey has been around for a long time and speaks in our terms. Enjoy this webcast and others that have been archived here from our friends at Focus FAA.

2/2/09:

ATO Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski met with Focus FAA’s Jerry Lavey concerning a variety of topics that you will find interesting. Krakowski provided insight into one of our agency’s top priorities, the resolution of conflict with our unions. Other topics included the agency’s release from the GAO’s (Government Accounting Office) high-risk list for modernization, and the possibility of a new FAM (cockpit familiarization training) program for Air Traffic Controllers. (Focus FAA: Monthly Webcast)