We're Board
An internal review board that has the same name as the engineering document it reviews
What is SIG?
A list of the sections in a document, usually with page numbers, found at the beginning of the document
What is Table of Contents?
This group decides how information is presented to controllers
What is the CHI Team?
The first stop for most site tickets
What is Triage?
Don't let this requirements tool slam on you!
What is DOORS?
Joint FAA/Leidos Engineering meeting to review SIG and PRED requests
What is CRB?
(Change Review Board)
An aviation term which describes the point at which a flight reaches cruise altitude
What is Top of Climb?
All twenty enroute sites are represented on this team
What is the NUT?
(National User Team)
The ticket type needed to change baselined documents
What is an ER?
(Engineering Request)
A graphical UML and SysML modeling tool that describes data and system threads
What is the Windchill Modeler?
This FAA board doesn't have anything to do with the Gaithersburg office building
What is the Risk, Issue and Opportunity (RIO) board?
A social media platform for creating and sharing short videos, and an alternate spelling of this category
What is Tik Tok?
Before any release is fielded, controllers try to break it doing this
What is Ops Eval?
(Operational Evaluation)
This ticket disposition is frequently misunderstood as indicating we intended to create a problem
What is WAD?
(Working as Designed)
The FAA created this tool for recording review comments
What is PRAT?
(Peer Review Automation Tool)
The board where RMA measurements are calculated and reported quarterly
What is the Failure Review Board (FRB)?
The action of sending a frequency message via CPDLC
What is Transfer of Communication?
Variations include SLE, AT, Tech Ops, and TI
What is SIB (Stakeholder Interest Board)?
Similar to a PR, this is the most common AIMS ticket type.
What is a Trouble Report (TR)?
Contradicting its name, this tool designates many PRs as "do not work"
What is the MFL?
(Must Fix List)
Variations are Engineering, Program and Hardware
What is Change Control Board (CCB)?
They may not be as speedy as their name suggests, but they keep adaptation releases on time
What is FAST?
(Field Automation Support Team)
The first stop on your way to engineering tools such as IDT, CM Tool, BigE and many more
What is the PMF (Production and Maintenance Facility)?