President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air ...

The Transportation Department is pushing hard for the new system to go online in 2028, with a price tag for modernization that could reach $31.5 billion. Peraton has won the massive contract to lead a ...

Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken. Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a ...

"I think by opening up air traffic control, we get more entrepreneurs in and more innovation," said Chris Edwards.

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it wants to adopt a new comprehensive system to overhaul how air traffic controllers receive flight data and move ...

Federal transportation officials are promising to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the nation’s air traffic control system, which aviation officials said are some of the radars, radio equipment ...

U.S. air traffic control system is showing its age. Many of its critical systems are decades old, and some are starting to fail. We saw that during the radar and communication outages that led to ...

In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for industry to start working on and turning in their proposals for a contract to stand up a new air traffic control system for managing U ...

Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...

The Newark airport's air traffic control dilemma lit up when radar screens went dark in early May. Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with pilots. Some were reportedly so unnerved they later ...