The agency expects to spend more than $6 billion this year to lay the groundwork for a complete overhaul of the rapidly aging air traffic control system.

Contractors RTX and Indra will replace the radar systems by the summer of 2028. “Our radar network is outdated and long ...

RTX, based in Arlington, Virginia, and Indra, based in Madrid, have agreed to replace up to 612 radars by June 2028.

The U.S. government awarded contracts to RTX Corp and Spain's Indra Sistemas to supply new radar systems as part of a $12.5 ...

The FAA announced that 2025 was the busiest year for U.S. air travel since 2010, handling 17.2 million flights versus a mere ...

Coventry Town Manager John A. Elsesser Credit: Keith M. Phaneuf / CTMirror.org Coventry Town Manager John A. Elsesser Credit: Keith M. Phaneuf / CTMirror.org The town of Coventry needs to replace the ...

The United States awarded contracts on Monday to RTX Corp and Spain's Indra Sistemas to supply new radars for its aging air ...

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 ...

Blacked-out air traffic control screens and communication issues in places like Newark, Denver and Jacksonville over the past several months have put a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will unveil a plan next week to upgrade the aging, under-staffed U.S. air traffic control system next week, he said on Friday. Duffy said ...

Technology failures inside the FAA have dominated headlines, including reports that the agency still relies on floppy disks and decades-old software in some facilities.