Air traffic controllers have one of the highest-pressure jobs with the most responsibility on the planet. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States' Air Traffic Organization ...

Delta CEO Ed Bastian talks about the antiquated air traffic control system in the U.S. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for industry to start working on and turning in their proposals for a contract to stand up a new air traffic control system for managing U ...

Jan. 11, 2023 -- An American Airlines Airbus A321 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for industry to start working on and turning in their proposals for a ...

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 ...

The Senate passed a sweeping budget reconciliation bill with billions of dollars to fix the air traffic control system. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the budget proposal, which he calls ...

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 ...

The Federal Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is showing its age. In January 2023, a database problem forced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pause thousands of flights and issue a ...

Transportation officials seek to implement new state-of-the-art system Plan will eliminate outdated tech like floppy disks, Windows 95 FAA handles about 45,000 flights per day in U.S. airspace The ...

U.S. air traffic control system is showing its age. Many of its critical systems are decades old, and some are starting to fail. We saw that during the radar and communication outages that led to ...