WASHINGTON - The U.S. Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) published a report Tuesday urging the FAA to modernize systems for air traffic control (ATC), Caleb Revill writes for Flying. Continue reading original article.
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7 March 2025 - “Of the 138 systems, 51 (37 percent) were deemed unsustainable by FAA and 54 (39 percent) were potentially unsustainable,” the GAO report stated. “Many unsustainable and potentially unsustainable systems have critical operational impacts on the safety and efficiency of the national airspace.”
“As of May 2024, completion dates for planned investments for systems that GAO deemed especially concerning were at least six to 10 years away,” the report said. “Four such systems did not have associated investments.”
The GAO report is available here: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-108162.pdf.
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