The Aircraft Certification Service has used strategic planning to set our long-term organizational priorities since 1987. In July 1998, the ACMT formally tasked a revision of the existing AIR Strategic Plan. We used a deliberate process with a formal interview/survey to gain feedback from industry, other FAA lines-of-business, and stakeholders. Our newly revised AIR Strategic Plan will now guide us to the year 2007. In developing the plan, we examined the DOT Strategic Plan and have aligned our revised strategic plan with FAA and AVR Strategic goals. The AIR Strategic Plan's focus is to transform AIR, while our day-to-day mission is captured in the annual AIR Business Plan. Our AIR Vision articulates our intent and resolve for the future. Based on our Vision, this plan spells out the strategies that will enable AIR to meet the technical, global, and resource challenges of the future.

The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) mission is to promote the safe, orderly, & expeditious flow of air traffic in the U.S. airspace system. To this end, FAA is modernizing its air traffic control systems, a multibillion dollar effort that has been designated as a high-risk program. Research into the practices of successful public- & private-sector organizations has shown that developing & using an enterprise architecture, or blueprint, to guide & constrain systems investments is crucial to the success of such a modernization effort. This report determines whether FAA has established an effective processes for managing the development & implementation of an enterprise architecture. Includes recommendations. Charts & tables.