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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is using ineffective processes for identifying and resolving production issues at Boeing, a U.S. government oversight agency says.
The Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a report dated Oct. 9 and made public on Friday that it had traced the problem to “weaknesses in FAA’s oversight processes and systems.”
Among those weaknesses is that the FAA “has not adequately ensured that Boeing and its suppliers can produce parts that conform to the approved design,” the report said. The document also noted that the FAA “does not use data-driven assessments to target audits,” that the FAA’s compliance system “cannot track milestones or determine whether potential repetitive non…
