The Federal Aviation Administration told lawmakers it is not considering replacing the telecommunication contracts it holds ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will embark on an ambitious three-year plan to modernize America's air traffic control systems and phase out the "outdated technologies that are unable to meet ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday the FAA is searching for "top innovators" to lead the rebuilding of the nation's "antiquated" air traffic control system.

WASHINGTON — This week, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration laid out an ambitious goal of bringing the U.S. air traffic control system into the 21st century. "The whole idea is to ...

Simply stated, air-traffic control is a 24/7 high-tech operation trapped inside a regulatory agency. The FAA is bound by stultifying federal rules and sees Congress, not the traveling public, as ...

A 2024 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that 51 of the FAA’s 138 air traffic control systems are “unsustainable” and in urgent need of modernization.

Early retirements and the strains of the work itself help explain why the Federal Aviation Administration is about 3,500 air traffic controllers short of its staffing target, per Reuters.

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

“In the past few days, on more than one occasion, technology that FAA air traffic controllers rely on to manage the airplanes coming in and out of Newark airport failed,” CEO Scott Kirby said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the facility that handles Newark air traffic on Monday lost radio frequencies for about two seconds, the latest in a series of telecom issues.