DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: Office of Aircraft Services and Bureaus Can More Fully Recover and Further Reduce Aviation Program Costs

Abstract

To fight fires, enforce laws, and conduct search and rescue operations on federal lands in Alaska, Hawaii, and throughout the lower 48 states, the Department of the Interior's eight bureaus must obtain aircraft and aviation-related services through the Office of Aircraft Services (OAS). OAS administers the department's $102 million aviation program and provides the bureaus with about 550 government-controlled aircraft: about 100 owned by the government (fleet aircraft) and 450 obtained from the private sector through various long-term contracts and leases (contract aircraft). OAS also has overall responsibility for the department's aviation safety program: it reviews the bureaus aviation safety efforts, assists in training fleet pilots, develops aviation safety and aircraft accident prevention programs, and establishes aviation program standards.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401730

Entities

People

  • Barry T. Hill

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Aviation Safety
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Electronic Mail
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Management Personnel
  • Natural Resources
  • Pilots
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Standards
  • Training
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Government and Public Administration Law.