Feds aim to spend $12.5B in initial spending for air traffic control reform

WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration precocious announced a three-year program to upgrade aerial postulation power systems nationwide.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addressed the issues that caused delays astatine Newark Liberty International Airport.

“What you spot successful Newark, we are going to person to fix, we are going to bash it fast, but we’re going to bash it right. We could spot different situations similar this astir the state due to the fact that the strategy is old,” Duffy said.

Duffy said Congress has to enactment his program to implicit the much-needed updates to the country’s aerial postulation strategy successful 3 to 4 years.

“This is simply a program to physique everything new,” Duffy said. “It’s going to beryllium analyzable but we don’t privation much Newarks.”

The House Transportation Committee projected allocating $12.5 billion. Sen. Rick Scott said it’s a occupation that has to beryllium fixed.

“Whether it’s technology, it’s having the close people, whether it’s having the close grooming ... oregon the close process, thing has got to change,” Scott said.

The program besides includes a “full replacement” of the telecommunications infrastructure by transitioning from Time Division Multiplexing to Internet Protocol by 2028. It besides aims to regenerate astir 5,000 caller radios and unfastened six caller power centers.

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