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The '''Air Traffic Organization''' ('''ATO''') is an air navigation service provider in the [[United States|United States of America]]. The ATO is the operational division of the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA).<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>

The ATO also provides air navigation services to private and commercial clients and the U.S. military. Their operational range covers 29.4 million square miles of airspace over the United States, and portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>

The Air Traffic Control System Command Center serves as the principal element of the Systems Operations Division of the Air Traffic Organization and is responsible for the real-time command, control, and oversight of the [[National Airspace System]] (NAS). It was first established in April of 1970 at [[FAA]] Headquarters. In 1994, it was moved to [[Herndon, Virginia]]. In 2011, it was relocated to the Vint Hill area of Northern Virginia near [[Warrenton, Virginia]].<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>

Finance Services is in charge of financial metrics, comparative analysis productivity measures, business case evaluation, and competitive sourcing. Their management has helped the ATO establish credibility with Congress{{Organization|date=October 2009}} and enabled the performance-based organization to deliver services to customers more efficiently.{{Organization|date=October 2009}}

The Air Traffic Organization was created as the operations arm of the FAA by [[executive order]] of President [[Bill Clinton]] in December 2000 to apply businesslike practices to the delivery of air traffic services.<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>  A few months later, Congress passed enabling legislation which laid the foundation for the creation of a performance-based organization to manage the national airspace system, and the hiring of a chief operating officer to lead it.

Chew resigned in February 2007. FAA Deputy Administrator Bobby Sturgell was appointed to serve as acting chief operating officer of the ATO during a search for a replacement. Hank Krakowski became the ATO's Chief Operating Officer in 2007 and tendered his resignation in April 2011.<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>

The Air Traffic Organization is composed of 35,000 employees.<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span> Many of these employees, including more than 14,000 air traffic controllers, 5,000 air traffic supervisors and air traffic managers, 1,100 engineers, and 6,100 maintenance technicians, directly serve customers.

Each major airport maintains a control tower which houses air traffic controllers who monitor all aircraft taxiing, taking off and landing at that airport. They own the airspace up to {{Organization|3000|ft|m}} above the airport and a radius of {{Organization|5|mi|km|spell=in}} around the airport. Tower controllers have three different positions through which each rotate during their shift assignment: clearance delivery, ground control and local control.

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