President Donald Trump said on Dec. 2 that his administration will start the process of reconstructing Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia.
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump highlighted his administration’s efforts to rebuild the U.S. air traffic control system, including upgrading copper communication lines to fiber optics and replacing old, analog radar systems with new digital platforms.
That work, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, is a third of the way complete.
Duffy and Trump expect to finish the project by the end of the president’s term.
“We’re also going to rebuild Dulles Airport, because it’s not a good airport. It should be a great airport, and it’s not a good airport at all,” Trump said. “It was incorrectly designed with a good building. Actually, it’s got a beautiful terminal.”…