CASE STUDY

In August 2003, GCR initiated a project with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop a web-based application that allows federal airport inspectors to transmit and collect information regarding activities related to safety certification and inspection of airports under Part 139 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (large air-carrier airports). The challenge in this project was to take an existing desktop application, which is used by over 50 airport inspectors and over 45 regional and headquartered personnel across the United Statues, and re-design it a web-enabled environment while retaining the look and functionality of the previous program in an accelerated time frame.

The web enabled application designed by GCR provides the vehicle for FAA certified regional and Airport District Office inspectors to track information pertaining to an airports' Part 139 Certification allowing deficiencies, recommendations, certificate actions, and enforcement details resulting from annual or surveillance inspections to be tracked and maintained.

Other aspects of the program allow the tracking an airport's history and registration of aircraft rescue and fire fighting (ARFF) vehicles and equipment in addition to allow for each user to maintain their personal history of training certifications and classifications.