The Biden-era FAA website, now scrubbed, said, "The FAA's mission involves securing the skies of a diverse nation. It only makes sense that the workforce responsible for that mission reflects the nation."
In 2022, the FAA pledged to "diversify its workforce by rethinking its hiring practices," and administration officials assigned long-term goals to amplify diversity, accessibility and LGBTQ issues.
A 2022 performance target required that the agency "host a national symposium with internal and external stakeholders to socialize efforts on the use of gender-neutral language at FAA."
The FAA declared 2023 a "Year of Inclusion" and held a three-day symposium that trained FAA employees to understand the impact of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and to overcome and unmask "unconscious bias."
The FAA's focus on diversity began under the Obama administration. In 2013, the FAA started using a "biographical assessment" to increase the hiring of preferred minority racial groups at air traffic control centers. The assessment asked applicants about their participation in school sports and the age at which they started earning money.
Yeah, because air traffic controllers need to be 'diverse' not competent...
