The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needed a secure equipment tracking application for its numerous control tower and radar facilities. The FAA wanted this Web-based application to support a large, diverse group of users, including contractors, operations personnel and regional administrators, who would be surveying, entering data and analyzing aviation infrastructures during a transition planning process. The application would also serve as the primary digital point of access for equipment- and facilities-related information.

Fig Leaf Software proposed and built an application that enables users to enter, edit and manage equipment and facility data, as well as create related charts, graphs and reports for analyzing the data. The Facilities Information and Analysis Tool (FIAT) provides a central location for storing the detailed information gathered during a facility survey and then tracking the facility, its equipment and infrastructure needs throughout a program cycle.

Using Photoshop, ImageReady, and Dreamweaver, Fig Leaf Software designed a clean-looking navigation system and interface for the application. The FAA needed an application that would load quickly and provide easy access to specific pieces of information. The resulting easy-to-use navigation system gives users direct access to almost any page of the application, and the tabbed interface makes it easy to navigate to transition plans, facility data, data analysis, and data entry modules. Heavy use of JavaScript enables the application to perform data validation, state maintenance, WDDX data manipulation, and the storage and display of graphical elements on the client for improved overall performance. Dynamic HTML further enhances the application’s performance by limiting server requests and improving the user’s visual experience.