I mean it's atrocious the system we use. It's safe, but we're seeing the cracks of age." "So, we're gonna build a brand new state-of-the-art system.".@SecDuffy teases a NEW air traffic control system: ...

The FAA has a plan to address this, the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) project, but it’s not going well. The project started in 2007 and was due to conclude around 2030.

A Government Accountability Office report released last year found 51 of the FAA’s 138 air traffic controller systems were unsustainable, and another 54 were deemed potentially unsustainable.

FILE - The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is seen at sunset, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Arlington, Va.. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file) TOPICS: ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

It set aside $500 million for the design and early construction of the projects, which were scheduled to break ground last year. “These new air traffic control towers will mean that smaller ...

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from 5.25-inch floppy disks, with upgrades not expected until 2030 due to ...

Duffy also said he has learned that air traffic control systems across the country are 25 to 30 years old, and some of them even use floppy disks as if they were stuck in the 1980s.