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FAA + Decision Lens

Welcome to the FAA - Decision Lens Community Page, the portal for gaining knowledge and awareness of Decision Lens capabilities and resources. Start here to find answers to common questions such as "What is Decision Lens?" to "How do I get trained and learn more?"

Decision Lens develops integrated planning software which modernizes how government prioritizes, plans, and funds since 2005. Built on decision science, agencies better meet their objectives through integrated long-range planning, continuous medium-range prioritization, and agile short-range funding execution.

 

Learn more about Decision Lens

About Decision Lens (pdf)  | Decision Lens - Am I a good Candidate to use it?  | Facilities Management (pdf) | eBook: Put Your Money Where Your Mission Is |

Decision Lens - FAA Account Manager | Laura Seng 484-553-8841 lseng@decisionlens.com |  VP of Account Management, Maria Ryan mryan@decisionlens.com |

Technical Support  support@decisionlens.com 

Decision Lens Educational Opportunities

Below is an outline of virtual courses equipped with short videos and quizzes to learn Decision Lens at your own pace.

Click here to see our latest Decision Lens University offerings.

  • Data Intake/Validation (from 1pm EST - 3pm EST)
    • This training will focus on features in our integrated planning software. Learn how to automate data intake into our system, validate the data is correct, learn to control access in this single repository, and enable a more continuous planning process!

  • What-If Planning/Execution (from 1pm EST - 3pm EST) 
    • "Data Intake & Validation" is a pre-requisite to this course
      • This training will focus on features in our integrated planning software. Learn to analyze scenarios, create excursions and decipher implications and tradeoffs of decisions.

Current Decision Lens Use at FAA

EnRoute Facilities

The EnRoute Facilities is an annual prioritization effort for infrastructure facilities funding for future FYs. Decision Lens helps this group by evaluating major maintenance projects in EnRoute Facilities and identify top projects for scheduling.

Hard to Staff

This is a use case comprised of comprehensive evaluations of FAA Duty Locations that are the most difficult to staff based on economic, labor, and facility criteria. Decision Lens helps this group evaluate data related to hiring announcements, resignations, transfer requests, overtime hours, and more.

TTech Evolution 2025

This use case is a prioritization of Air Traffic & Tech Ops training courses in support of Technical Training Evolution 2025. Decision Lens helps this group with their quarterly group prioritization and spend plan build for Air Traffic & Tech Ops portfolios.

Human Factors Round Table

This use case is a prioritization of Human Factors Round Table research requirements across eight business units for Air Traffic.

Rulemaking Prioritization

This use case is prioritization and tracking of rulemaking policy changes for the Office of Safety Standards.

IT Prioritization

This use case is prioritization of technical requirements for the 8 Service Offices (SOs) that make up the AVS office.

Candidate Selection, Eastern & Western Service Areas

This use case is for the candidate selection framework for various roles and is directly applied to hiring/promotion decisions.

Demonstrations & Support 

If you or your organization is new to Decision Lens, and wish to leverage Decision Lens to support your organization, follow these steps to get started:

1. Request a short demonstration of Decision Lens. Call Laura Seng, your Decision Lens Account Manager, at 484-553-8841 or email lseng@decisionlens.com

2. Post-demonstration, Decision Lens provides a Success Planning Workshop with your organization's key stakeholders. Decision Lens team members will meet with FAA leads and core team members to review the details of a prospective FAA process for which Decision Lens may be implemented. The purpose of these discussions will be to help the Decision Lens team generate a recommendation regarding the level of support needed to ensure success for the FAA user groups (see packages below). These meetings will also help FAA personnel understand the Decision Lens implementation and support approach.

3. Support packages (implementation and support)

FAA has purchased implementation and support packages to accompany the Decision Lens License. Customer Success Managers are standing by to assist the FAA for any decision. Typical support includes model development, best practices for rating scales, data import, facilitation support, allocation scenario development, advanced analytics and visualization and custom training. 

Decision Lens can also provide a custom learning program for your organization based on your specific goals/requirements.  Contact your FAA Decision Lens Account Manager to get started.

Training Opportunities

Register for our upcoming LIVE virtual product training courses: https://www.decisionlens.com/dlu-training-registration 

Use our online on-demand learning resources: https://learn.decisionlens.com/ 

Contact university@decisionlens.com to learn more.