I Blogged About This Last Year

We do not know if the controllers at DCA were  hired under this DEI program but it is insane that these criteria existed instead of hiring based on merit. This is the archived FAA page:

"The FAA meets the goals of the PWD Program through a variety of practices:

"Targeted Disabilities
"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.

"On-the-Spot Hiring
"A non-competitive hiring method for filling vacancies with Veterans and/or individuals with disabilities. Managers can choose to fill an open position through the On-the-Spot hiring process given they provide the required documentation for doing so."