Regional Logistics, Finance & Information
Management Services Division
NATCA represents 565 employees in eight different regions in the FAA
Regional Logistics, Finance and Information Services Divisions. The
members in this bargaining unit provide many different services that
everyone in the agency needs at one time or another.
NATCA won the election with 78 percent of the vote, and the Federal
Labor Relations Authority issued certification on April 26, 2000.
Carmela Newberry serves as the group's national representative. Within
NATCA, this division is further combined with the engineers and architects
and create essentially one "region" of about 2,508 total
bargaining unit members represented by Engineers and Architects Vice
President Mike MacDonald on the National Executive Board.
What Do These Members Do?
Logistics Division is a support division reporting directly to the
regional administrator. The responsibilities of the division are a myriad,
varied, and are comprised of the following:
Acquisition Management Acquisition is responsible for assisting other
divisions in complete acquisition services, from small purchases, supplies
and service to major contracting of equipment, services and construction.
Under the Acquisition Management System (AMS) the contracting officer is
to obtain high quality products, services and construction in a timely,
cost-effective manner, at prices that are fair and reasonable.
The contracting officer works primarily, but not exclusively with ATO
offices in planning and preparing small or major projects, competing and
finally awarding to a contractor. Acquisition Management initiates and
develops acquisition training programs and materials for the regional and
field offices.
Programs residing in Acquisition include: TSSC Work Orders,
Reimbursable Agreements, Procurement Request Information System (PRISM),
Major Procurement Program Goals Report (MPPGR), Small Business Program,
etc.
Those in the Real Estate
Division are responsible for acquiring, managing and disposing of land and
space for FAA facilities and organizations. Employees research cost
effective options and evaluate whether to acquire by lease, purchase or
condemnation from private or public sources.
The real estate contracting officers obtain current data by market
survey or appraisal, conduct negotiations and finalize terms and
conditions. They administer and enforce lease contracts, space management
including layout design and alterations, and contracting with utility
suppliers for services required. Excess real property is processed by
termination of lease contract, cancellation of utility contract or
disposal of government owned land.
The Real Estate Division personnel are also responsible for appraisals,
building management, rent free space on airports, real property reporting
and space management and utility contracts.
Materiel Management Materiel Management employees work with FAA
employees to ensure the property they are using is properly identified,
recorded and accounted for in AITS. They
conduct inventories, write up Report of Surveys and responses for the
Survey Board, balance monthly, quarterly and annually all agency amounts
in regards to the “books”, provide training for all agency
management/personnel for property accountability/disposal/etc.
Specialists track the entire life cycle of the FAA's personal property
and assets, consisting of administrative claim items for the National
Airspace System equipment and
systems and process purchased assets in Mass Additions.
They capitalize real property assets involved in accounting and are
responsible for all date input, maintaining automated database programs
and arranging physical inventories to validate assets.
Other services include: · Project materiel management o Close out
and capitalization · Excess and disposal o Utilization and screening o
Donating government property · Property surveys o Loss of government
property · Logistics inventory system (ie. Name and addresses,
monthly/annual reports and ordering) o Cataloging · Motor vehicle
management · Physical inventories of all FAA offices · Reimbursables
and Memoranda of Agreements
Administrative Services Administrative Services or Building Services
Branches perform the following functions: building access cards, space and
office reconfiguration, regional motor vehicle management, parking decals,
liaison with the owners of the building for property maintenance and
management of the Regional Office, warehouse operations, emergency
evacuation plans, mal service, distribution of forms and
orders/regulations, print shop, supply room, all division purchases,
CCTV’s signage for the building, internal key control and badges,
employee and tort claims, security control point, copier maintenance for
the division, personal property inventory for the division, and pick and
sale of excess property.
Building Services is responsible for: maintenance of the regional
office buildings, copy centers that produce large volumes of copies that
need binding, supply rooms that handle the distribution of supplies for
employees in regional offices, space planning and furniture relocations,
distribution of forms and orders/regulations, mail services that include
incoming and outgoing mail.
Contact Person
Carmela Newberry
ARC National Representative
SW Regional Office
817/913-9975
PIN 32002
natarcrep@sbcglobal.net