Federal Daily - October 23, 2008

FAA Adds Schools to Controller Training Initiative

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) earlier this month announced that it had selected eight additional schools to participate in the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) program. Approved colleges and universities in the program prepare and train students interested in careers as air traffic controllers. The addition of the new institutions increases the number of CTI schools from 23 to 31. The schools are accredited and offer a non-engineering aviation degree, FAA said in a statement. The FAA plans to recruit and hire more than 17,000 new air traffic controllers over the next 10 years. CTI schools figure to be part of that hiring wave. In the past five years, CTI schools have graduated more than 4,000 students from their aviation programs; 3,000 of those graduates were hired by FAA, the agency said. “These schools are an excellent jump start for a job in air traffic control,” said Robert A. Sturgell, FAA’s acting administrator. The most recent schools added are Aims Community College (Colorado), Broward Community College (Florida), Eastern New Mexico-Roswell (New Mexico), Embry Riddle-Prescott (Arizona), Jacksonville University (Florida), LeTourneau University (Texas), St. Cloud State University (Minnesota) and Tulsa Community College (Oklahoma). To see more, go to: www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=10298.

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Agencies Collaborate on Digitization Guidelines

Federal Computer Week—The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative, a partnership of a dozen federal agencies that is working to establish a common set of guidelines for the digitization of historical materials, has launched a new Web site. The site, www.digitizationguidelines.gov, includes a glossary of digitization terms and concepts and news from the participating agencies. The initiative has two working groups: one focused on content that can be captured from still images and another on sound, video or motion picture film. The still image working group will focus its efforts on content such as books, manuscripts, maps and photographic prints. Meanwhile, the audio-visual group will address standards and practices for sound, video and film. The Web site came online in late September and features two draft documents that were developed by the still image working group and are open for comment until Nov. 15. To see the complete story, go to: www.fcw.com/online/news/154130-1.html.

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DoD Launches New Recruitment Ad Campaign

DoD on Oct. 20 announced it had launched a new advertising campaign that targets parents of recruitment-age children who are considering joining the military. The ads, entitled “Conversations,” encourage parents to talk with their children when they ask questions about a military career. “The Department of Defense recognizes that parents are a key factor in young people’s decisions to join the military,” said Matt Boehmer, director of Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies. “We hope this campaign will encourage parents to get involved and talk about such an important decision.” The television and print ads depict conversations set in realistic settings between parents and their recruitment-age children, DoD said. The goal of the ads is to demonstrate parents’ emotions, appropriate reactions and possible next steps in support of their son’s or daughter’s decision. DoD produced six different television spots, along with a print campaign for national men’s, women’s and general interest magazines. To see more, go to: www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12296.

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