The Trump administration has announced an ambitious three-year plan to replace the nation’s aging air traffic control system.

The Trump administration announced a sweeping modernization program to deal with the air traffic control problem at plaguing ...

Duffy’s plan to overhaul the nation’s failing air traffic control system by 2028 follows a deadly plane crash in Washington, DC, earlier this year and thousands of hair-raising radar ...

The transportation secretary announced a far-reaching plan to drastically overhaul the current technology used by thousands ...

The Department of Transportation will build a “brand new air traffic control system” by 2028, Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday. “The FAA is going to undertake an initiative that has never been ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged lawmakers to secure tens of billions of dollars in funding to revamp the nation’s overburdened Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control systems.

The plan calls for six new air traffic control centres, along with an array of technology and communications upgrades over the next three or four years.

More than a dozen airport towers would be revamped, and the agency’s telecommunications network would be replaced with new fiber, wireless and satellite systems over the next three years.