The FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the nation's premier federal aviation laboratory for advancing the United States National Airspace System (NAS) and sustaining its continued safe and efficient operations.
The Center's partners and highly diverse technical workforce use a vast array of state-of-the-art laboratories to enable research, engineering, development, test, and evaluation of advanced aviation technologies. These combined assets deliver capabilities that modernize and sustain the nation's airspace system while simultaneously making it the safest, most efficient aviation system in the world.
Organizationally, the Technical Center Directorate (ANG-E) reports to the NextGen (ANG) organization. The director of the Technical Center oversees and leads a campus comprised of approximately 3,000 civil servant and contract scientists, researchers, engineers, and support staff who engage with stakeholders to research, design, develop, test, and implement improvements to the aviation system.
Collaboration is essential to the work performed at the Technical Center and key to attaining its five focus areas:
- Cultivating a qualified aviation workforce of the future,
- Advancing aviation technology,
- Communicating, building, and sharing TC capabilities through outreach,
- Partnering with industry, academia, and other government agencies, and
- Advancing the core work of the Center.