WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it wants to adopt a new comprehensive system to overhaul how air traffic controllers receive flight data and move aircraft ...

The government shutdown and recent accidents have shown the Air Traffic Control system’s vulnerability. It should be turned into an independent, nonprofit organization removed from politics. The ...

Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken. Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a ...

In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...

The need for network improvements came into sharp focus on April 28, when a temporary data delay caused blank radar screens for 90 seconds at the Newark airport, and silenced radios for 30 seconds.

The FAA has begun overhauling the nation's air traffic control system by increasing enrollment in controller training programs and offering bonuses to delay retirements. Transportation Secretary Sean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want ...

The Transportation Department is pushing hard for the new system to go online in 2028, with a price tag for modernization that could reach $31.5 billion. Peraton has won the massive contract to lead a ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...

Thanks to President Donald Trump, America is building again. And we’re building big, beautiful infrastructure beyond our roads and bridges for the planes of the 21st century. That starts with the One, ...