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OEP Associates Team | Review Board | OEP Partners

“The OEP is taking the right approach - it's about integration management.

This is critical, because we can't afford a case where the right side of the agency is not aligned with what the left side is doing. All of our efforts should be targeted toward building NextGen. The OEP will keep us all on the same road.”
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OEP Associates Team

The OEP Associates Team is responsible for the development and implementation of the Operational Evolution Partnership (OEP), FAA's plan for realizing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).

Bobby Sturgell FAA Deputy Administrator	Nick Sabatini FAA Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety	Catherine Lang FAA Deputy Associate Administrator for Airports	Ruth Leverenz FAA Assistant Administrator for Regions and Center Operations	Ramesh Punwani FAA Assistant Administrator for Financial Services/Chief Financial Officer
Eugene Juba ATO Senior Vice President, Financial Services	Victoria Cox ATO Vice President, Operations Planning Services	Rick Day ATO Vice President, En Route and Oceanic Services	Bruce Johnson ATO Vice President, Terminal Services	Michael Cirillo ATO Vice President, System Operations Services
Steve Zaidman ATO Vice President, Technical Operations Services	Tony Mello ATO Vice President, Safety Services	Gisele Mohler Director OEP Planning Staff	Fred Pease Department of Defense Liason	Agam Sinha MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)
Charles Leader Director, Joint Planning & Development Office	Dave Bowen Assistant Administrator for Information Services and CIO	Dan Elwell Assistant Administrator for Aviation Policy, Planning & Environment

Each member commits his/her line of business to fulfilling its individual role in NextGen implementation, and to ensuring cross-agency coordination on interdependent activities.

• Measure the periodic progress and ensure timely application of resources towards achieving the vision.
  
• Issue policies and guidance, or work to elevate policy issues to the right level for resolution.
  
• Identify specific leaders within your organization who will work with leaders from other organizations and the OEP office to develop the successive versions of the plan.
  
• Work with other team members and the OEP office, to make decisions on the priorities of initiatives to pursue the action or explore alternate paths when challenges are encountered.

 

OEP Review Board

The OEP Review Board takes a "big picture" view of FAA's transition to NextGen. It explores the interdependencies of various agency activities, providing a cross-agency perspective that will assist with integration, timely rulemaking, identification of required policy changes, and understanding of funding impacts. The OEP Review Board leads a cross-agency resource prioritization activity that supports the agency's budget formulation. It provides recommendations to the OEP Associates Team.

 

Member	Organization
Vicki Cox, co-chair	Vice President, ATO Operations Planning
Charles Leader, co-chair	Director, JPDO
John McGraw	Office of Aviation Safety, Flight Standards Service
Ben DeLeon	Office of Airports
Angela Freeman	Office of Regions and Center Operations
Sue Fedor	Office of Budget
Nan Shellabarger	Office of Aviation Policy, Planning and Environment
Luis Ramirez	ATO En Route and Oceanic Services
Rich Jehlen	ATO Systems Operation Services
Raul Trevino	ATO Terminal Services
Jim Eck	ATO Technical Operations
Maria DiPasquantonio	ATO Financial Services
Jim Williams	ATO Operations Planning, System Engineering
Huan Nguyen	ATO Safety Services
Terry Allard	ATO Operations Planning, Human Factors Research & Engineering
Lourdes Maurice	Office of Environment and Energy
John Pyburn	FAA FFRDC, MITRE CAASD
Kris Burnham	JPDO, Portfolio Management
Jay Merkle	JPDO, Chief Architect
Diana Liang	NAS Enterprise Architecture
Mark Powell	Office of Information Services
Gisele Mohler	Director, OEP Planning Staff
Wes Timmons	Office of Aviation Safety, Air Traffic Safety Oversight

 

OEP Partners

The OEP is a tool for communicating with oversight organizations and particularly with the aviation community, including airlines, cargo carriers, airports, manufacturers, business and general aviation. It describes operational changes for the mid-term as well as the NextGen end state. It helps our partners understand what is coming, and when, and what they'll need to do to get ready. The OEP office conducts frequent outreach efforts, particularly through participation with industry associations.