DOT to Overhaul FAA Organizational Structure

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Originally published at: DOT to Overhaul FAA Organizational Structure

Reorganization creates new safety office, consolidates oversight functions.

[Andrew_M]

Reorganization is a tried and true way to give the appearance of progress while not actually solving a problem. I went through many of them over the 23 years that I worked in the federal government. What really does work is putting the right people in positions of authority - people who are experienced in their jobs and know what they are doing. I don’t see many signs of that happening in our current administration. Another thing that really works is putting as much authority and responsibility for accomplishing a project in a single chain of command at the lowest level. Large government organizations tend to distribute authority and responsibility for accomplishing new projects across multiple organizational segments, which raises the level at which coordination and oversight must occur to accomplish a major project.Then the leaders of the organization who are responsible for that coordination and oversight are chosen based on political affiliation rather than competence. Or else there are changes in top leadership that cause changes in the project as they trickle down the organization, either because the project fails or goes over budget and schedule. Some projects take years to accomplish and don’t survive a 4-year political cycle or 1-year budget cycle.

[Pilot_Joe]

Wise words or experience here. If you know, you know.