A new federal watchdog report has raised concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ability to manage the nation’s air traffic safely and efficiently because of its reliance on aging and potentially unsustainable air traffic control systems.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report entitled “FAA Actions Are Urgently Needed to Modernize Aging Systems” in response to a system outage in 2023 that temporarily shut down national airspace and delayed thousands of flights.
The House Committee on Transportation asked the nonpartisan GAO to review the FAA’s modernization of its aging systems, according to the report. The resulting audit took place between August 2023 and September 2024….