At the end of April, air traffic control radar surveillance and radio communication systems at Newark Liberty International Airport went dark for over a minute. A week and half later, radar went down ...

But currently, air traffic controllers have to use a radar point-and-shoot system from the 1960s. “The screens look like something out of the 1960s and ‘70s,” Bastian said.

Congress approved a sweeping budget deal that includes $12.5 billion to modernize America’s aging air traffic control system.

Graves advocated for $12.5 billion in air traffic control modernization as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money would fund new towers, radar systems and facilities, as well as hiring ...

Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport were without radar for around a minute and a half Friday morning, leaving staffers without critical safety systems at the nation’s ...

Major airline CEOs on Wednesday called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in funding to modernize the United States' aging air traffic control system, saying it is "failing Americans." ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

When it comes to managing the new air traffic control system — which the transportation secretary announced Thursday at a news conference — companies will be able to submit bids.

Parts of the U.S. air traffic control system still rely on floppy disks and computers running Windows 95. The Trump administration is pushing for an overhaul, but it won't be easy or cheap.

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Air traffic control system must be fixed to avoid problems like Newark Airport, Duffy says Duffy emphasized that the Newark radar outages and air traffic control shortage are a prime example of ...

Duffy said the FAA will host two industry days next week in Washington, D.C., and another in New Jersey to meet with companies that could spearhead the building of the next air traffic control system.