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 ...

Six months after a deadly mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says $12.5 billion in funding has been secured to begin modernizing the nation’s aging and ...

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 ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. talks about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

Lawmakers are talking about an estimated $30.5 billion “wish list” circulating on Capitol Hill to overhaul the nation’s aging ...

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.

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 ...

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks By JOSH FUNK - Associated Press May 9, 2025 ...

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 ...

On April 28th, communications and radar systems went dark at the air traffic control facility in Philadelphia, where controllers manage the airspace around Newark.

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport briefly lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks, renewing ...