Just sayin’.
Raw Story, and a lot of other outlets, now reporting this story.
On October 13, 23 Democratic Members of Congress wrote to the Comptroller of the United States expressing concern about the rapid introduction of AI systems in to Air Traffic control.
Please tell me that this is fake news 🙂
it’s getting worse by the minute, everyone is jumping on this.
I don’t know about family grift here (although that sounds likely), but they were replacing floppy disk drives in the FAA a few days ago. They were basically still running on 1980s tech. They probably did need an update.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/faa-to-phase-out-floppy-disks-from-airport-control-towers/
Anyway, it’s another botched job by this Admin, widespread incompetence, and this particular thing is likely to continue, as Duffy is saying it will without another $50 billion and they are planning the floppy replacements at different airports over the next year.
I’ve done large system upgrades (but by no means large compared to the United States air traffic control system). I’ve done upgrades from very old, antiquated systems to new ones multiple levels beyond the old stuff that had just kept on working.
You just don’t push major upgrades with more data throughput required onto old equipment and you especially don’t do it before the busiest part of the year for the system.
They’re blaming a faulty setup of a fiber optic router at one site, replacing the copper line that was in use. We’ll see. Could be.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-aviation-shutdown-blamed-l3-harris-installed-router-2026-11-14/
Oh, they’re not blaming Biden or Pete Buttigieg?
They’re going to move air traffic “at the speed of Trump”? Well, they’ve been remarkably successful then.