Dec. 5 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation announced it selected an integrator to manage upgrades to the U.S. air traffic control system, which in recent years has seen failures and outages that ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (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 ...

Adverse weather can cause chaos, and air traffic control towers are so leanly staffed at many airports that a sick call can severely impact operations. The issues with America's air traffic control ...

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 ...

Federal transportation officials are promising to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the nation’s air traffic control system, which aviation officials said are some of the radars, radio equipment ...

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 ...

The Newark airport's air traffic control dilemma lit up when radar screens went dark in early May. Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with pilots. Some were reportedly so unnerved they later ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...