The Trump administration plans to announce a “brand new” U.S. air traffic control system “in the next couple days,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
Changes will include shifting from a copper communications infrastructure to fiber lines, as well as new radar systems and terminals for air traffic controllers, Duffy said Wednesday in an interview with Fox News.
“The key to this is speed,” he said. The problems with air traffic control are known, but it takes too long to make upgrades and then the technology changes, he said, adding that Congress “has to give us