Trump Administration announces plan to modernize air traffic control system

A view of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum in Houston, Texas, in April 2017. (Photo by Todd DeFeo/The DeFeo Groupe)

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy unveiled a plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system.

The Trump Administration said it is acting where President Joe Biden did not in the face of repeated warnings.

The announcement builds on the Trump Administration’s actions to secure America’s skies and improve air travel and was praised by the nation’s major airlines.

The plan calls for replacing outdated infrastructure with state-of-the-art fiber, wireless, and satellite technologies at more than 4,600 air traffic control sites, including 25,000 new radios, more than 600 new radars, and 475 new voice switches.

It also includes building six new air traffic control coordination centers for the first time in six decades. The feds plan to replace towers and Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities (TRACONs) and implement modern hardware and software at all air traffic facilities to create a common platform throughout the network.

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