The breakdown of a key computer system, which resulted in the suspension of U.S. flight departures, is not the first such issue to hinder Federal Aviation Administration operations, and happened amid efforts to upgrade technology. | Reuters
In October, for example, the FAA said it was working to end a long-ridiculed, decades-old practice of air traffic controllers using paper flight strips to keep track of aircraft. But adopting the change at 49 major airports will take the FAA until late 2029.
Last April, the FAA began investing $1 billion, out of $5 billion set aside in the infrastructure package signed into law in 2022, in repairing and replacing key equipment in the air traffic control system, including power systems, navigation and weather equipment, and radar and surveillance systems across the country.
In Florida, a system known as the En Route Automation Modernization used to control air traffic prompted the FAA on Jan. 2 to issue a ground stop order, slowing traffic into airports and snarling hundreds of flights.
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