{"id":21944,"date":"2022-05-03T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21944"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:26:37","slug":"faa-accepting-applications-for-aviation-workforce-development-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/faa-accepting-applications-for-aviation-workforce-development-grants\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Accepting Applications for Aviation Workforce Development Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Aviation Administration is seeking applications for two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/ang\/grants\/awd\/pilots\">Aviation Workforce Development Grant<\/a> programs aimed at developing and inspiring a more diverse pool of pilots and aviation maintenance technicians to join the next generation of aviation professionals. This is the FAA\u2019s second funding opportunity for these programs. A total of $10 million is available for the grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aircraft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/ang\/grants\/awd\/pilots\">Pilots Workforce Development<\/a> Grants will educate students to become pilots, aerospace engineers or unmanned aircraft systems operators. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/ang\/grants\/awd\/technical\">Aviation Maintenance <\/a>Technical Workers Workforce Development Grants will prepare aviation maintenance technicians. Eligible entities can submit applications at www.grants.gov through June 10, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligible entities may apply for grants ranging from $25,000\nto $500,000 for each grant per fiscal year. Last year, the FAA awarded $10\nmillion in grants to more than 30 schools and organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Notice of Funding Opportunity for each grant provides detailed information on eligibility, deadlines, evaluation criteria and application procedures. To ensure fair and open competition for the grants, answers to public questions will be posted on the FAA website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faa.gov\/go\/awd\">www.faa.gov\/go\/awd<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potential applicants should visit the site to review answers\nto frequently asked questions, eligibility requirements and guidelines that may\nassist them to complete their grant application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Aviation Administration is seeking applications for two Aviation Workforce Development Grant programs aimed at developing and inspiring a more diverse pool of pilots and aviation maintenance technicians to join the next generation of aviation professionals. This is the FAA\u2019s second funding opportunity for these programs. A total of $10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/workforce-dev-grants.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}