FAA announces new air traffic control system in hopes of taming busy skies [View all]
Source: NBC News
May 8, 2025, 1:32 PM EDT / Updated May 8, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT
The FAA will embark on an ambitious three-year plan to modernize America's air traffic control systems and phase out the "outdated technologies that are unable to meet" modern demands, officials said Thursday.
The federal government has been under pressure to address mounting traveler concerns in the wake of fatal crashes, ongoing delays and an embarrassing, recent revelation that the Newark airspace controllers lost all contact with pilots last week after a failure of the copper wiring that transmits radar data from New York to Philadelphia TRACON.
President Donald Trump said he sympathizes with passengers trapped in airports due to air traffic delays. "I'm sorry what you’re going through with the terminals, but we’re going to get them fixed up," Trump said in a phone call with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Trump said too much air traffic data and communications run through "equipment that’s from the 1960s if you can believe it, doesn’t even mesh with the plane."
Duffy acknowledged the administration will need considerable assistance from Capitol Hill. "I need help. I can’t do it by myself and it’s going to take the help of the Congress to make that happen," he said. "So to do it in three or four years, we need all of the money up front."
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They have been saying this for decades.
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