The Safety and Technical Training service (AJI) is a branch of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) that is responsible for proactively identifying safety trends and mitigating risk using data-driven strategies. Additionally, AJI provides technical training for air traffic controllers and technical operations technicians and engineers so that they have the data points and insights to support their day-to-day activities.
The FAA collects and owns a great amount of data related to air traffic, aircraft and airmen certification, safety performance, etc. For all of the data collected, the FAA recognizes that the data could be more useful, reliable and trusted. Continuing their multiyear journey, AJI leaders in FY23 looked toward data and analytics to deliver objective safety insights for the air traffic controllers and technical operations technicians and engineers that they support. AJI asked Ernst & Young LLP to build on work from past years’ collaborations to develop a solution that will advance the AJI agenda to provide tools and services that support risk-based decision-making for AJI’s customers.
The EY team of data scientists, data engineers and BI developers helped AJI create its first end-to-end data product that delivered value by integrating and analyzing the vast stores of data across a multitude of domains (safety, weather, equipment, operations, etc.). The safety insights enhanced by contextual data are visualized in a dashboard that is published and accessible to all FAA employees, providing clean, curated and integrated data that significantly decreases the effort required to identify safety trends from weeks to seconds.