FAA Employment Application Information Collection: Renewal of OMB Approval for AVIATOR System
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking public comments on its intent to renew approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an existing information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection relates to the automated employment application process used by the FAA, which is administered through the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) USAJOBS platform at www.usajobs.gov. Applicants begin by creating an account on USAJOBS, after which they are seamlessly transferred into the FAA's proprietary system called AVIATOR (Automated Vacancy Information Access Tool for Online Referral). Within AVIATOR, applicants answer job-specific questions related to FAA vacancies of interest. There is no standalone direct link to AVIATOR; access is only possible through the USAJOBS interface. The data collected serves two primary purposes: determining basic employment eligibility, including eligibility for Veterans' Preference, Veterans' Readjustment Act appointments, and People with Disabilities appointments; and assessing candidates' qualifications through occupation-specific questions so that the FAA Office of Human Resource Management (AHR) can identify and hire the best-qualified individuals across FAA job categories. This notice invites public comment on the necessity, accuracy, and burden of the information collection before the FAA formally submits its renewal request to OMB.
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Key Changes
- FAA is renewing — not creating — an existing OMB-approved information collection; no new data fields are being introduced at this stage
- Public comment period opened as of March 23, 2026, under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 prior to formal OMB submission
- Employment application process continues to route exclusively through USAJOBS → AVIATOR with no standalone AVIATOR access link for applicants
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Obligations
What this law requires
FAA must seek and accept public comments on the necessity, accuracy, and burden of the AVIATOR information collection before formally submitting renewal request to OMB
FAA must formally submit renewal request to OMB for approval of the AVIATOR information collection in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
FAA must collect applicant data exclusively through the USAJOBS interface with no standalone direct link to AVIATOR system
FAA must use collected information to determine basic employment eligibility including Veterans' Preference, Veterans' Readjustment Act appointments, and People with Disabilities appointments eligibility
FAA Office of Human Resource Management must use occupation-specific questions to assess and identify best-qualified candidates across FAA job categories