RFI - Air Traffic Controller Training
ID: ATCTrainingRFI082025Type: Sources Sought
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TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OFFEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION693KA8 SYSTEM OPERATIONS CONTRACTSWASHINGTON, DC, 20591, USA
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    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking information regarding innovative training strategies for Air Traffic Controller (ATC) training as part of a new hiring initiative aimed at increasing student intake. The RFI aims to gather insights on scalable instructor models, enabling technologies, and adaptive learning methods to enhance training capacity, improve student success rates, and address instructor workforce constraints. This initiative is crucial for ensuring that new ATCs are effectively trained to manage the National Airspace System (NAS) safely and efficiently. Responses to this RFI are due by September 8, 2025, and interested parties can contact Stephen Shaffer at stephen.c.shaffer@faa.gov for further information.

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    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for Air Traffic Controller (ATC) training to support a significant increase in student intake due to a new hiring initiative. The RFI seeks innovative training strategies, enabling technologies, and scalable instructor models to expand capacity, increase throughput, improve success rates, and enhance instructor effectiveness. Key areas of interest include increasing throughput at the FAA Academy, improving student success with adaptive learning and predictive analytics, leveraging AI for feedback and performance analysis, deploying immersive technologies, addressing instructor workforce constraints, enabling distributed training, and applying data-driven program management. The FAA is particularly interested in approaches to training new ATCs, decreasing certification time, recurrent training, deploying new technologies, and proposed training models and delivery methods. The RFI also asks about instructor qualifications, alternative training methodologies, increasing student passage rates, assessing instructor labor pools, developing instructor bases, addressing common government training challenges, measuring training effectiveness, sustainability, and implementation requirements. The FAA will use responses for informational purposes only and will not pay for information received. Responses are due by September 8, 2025.
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