Providing timely, relevant ATO information to all ATO audiences.Communications ServicesĬommunications Services uses all types of media to keep ATO employees, Congress and the aviation industry well-informed about developments in the organization. In addition, it oversees flight services program operations, workforce development and controller training. It also provides information technology services and human resource management services. The unit is responsible for acquisition policy, contracting and quality assurance services. Acquisition and Business ServicesĪcquisition and Business Services covers a broad range of responsibilities. We interface with more than 18 air navigation service providers. This includes control of traffic in the South Pacific to the Northern Polar Routes, the North Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. and more than 24,600,000 square miles (64,000,000 km 2) of airspace over the oceans. We are responsible for controlling more than 5,600,000 square miles (15,000,000 km 2) of airspace in the U.S. In 2006 En Route and Oceanic Services supported 47 million operations in the national airspace system. Maintains and reports on operational performance metrics and conducts trend analysis.Įn Route and Oceanic Services is nearly 9,000 people strong.Establishes and maintains policies, standards and procedures to enable safe, secure and efficient En Route and Oceanic operations.Creates validated operations and programmatic requirements for En Route and Oceanic air traffic services that provide for the safe, secure and efficient use of navigable airspace.Works with Terminal, Technical Operations and Systems Operations Services to provide air traffic services that meet customer target levels of efficiency, safety and security.Controllers at 20 air route traffic control centers coordinate with Terminal, Technical Operations and Systems Operations services to provide seamless air traffic services.Įn Route and Oceanic Services provide air traffic services to ATO customers operating in the national airspace system, as well as international airspace assigned to U.S. and far out into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
En Route and Oceanic ServicesĪir traffic controllers in En Route and Oceanic Services manage aircraft at the highest levels over the U.S. The blue regions are where the US provides oceanic ATC services over international waters (Hawaii, some US island territories, & some small, foreign island nations/territories where the US provides high-altitude ATC service are included in this region). Yellow ( enroute) covers land territory, excluding Hawaii and some island territories but including most of the Bering Sea as well as Bermuda and the Bahamas (sovereign countries, where the FAA provides high-altitude ATC service). The FAA provides air traffic control services over US territory as well as over international waters where it has been delegated such authority by the ICAO. NextGen and Operations Planning Services.With more than 7,000 takeoffs and landings per hour, and more than 660 million passengers and 37 billion cargo revenue ton miles of freight a year, ATO safely guides 50,000 aircraft through the national airspace system every day. ATO employs more than 35,000 controllers, technicians, engineers and support workers. Unlike most government agencies, the ATO is set up as a performance-based organization whose customers are commercial and private aviation and the military. ATO is America’s air navigation service provider. The Air Traffic Organization ( ATO) is the operations arm of the Federal Aviation Administration. United States Department of Transportation