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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Transportation Management Center is something of a miniature NASA control room where screens display views of intersections across the county.

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 ...

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 ...

Last Friday, the FAA ordered airlines to reduce their schedules nationwide — a 10 percent cut at forty major airports, including Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, and San Francisco. More than 1,000 flights ...