The new United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, is moving forward with a clear priority of modernizing the United States’ air traffic control system. According to an interview given to Fox News, Secretary Duffy plans to announce the details and funding next week – with support from airline industry leaders from both a pilot’s union and management. “Top technology that's going to be deployed” First, Secretary Duffy shared with Fox News’ Fox and Friends morning talk show on March 19 why his sense of urgency, “It's not that we don't know that we've had a problem with air traffic control, but it takes too long.
And then technology changes, money changes, administrations change. So we have to do this really fast. And so the Congress has to give us all the money up front.
” Secretary Duffy also made his case to NBC News, making clear the need for large sums of money appropriated from Congress for fast action: What does Secretary Duffy want “all the money up front” for? Try, “Top technology that's going to be deployed” like: Replacing copper cables with fiber Replacing radars, “some of the newest models that we have date back to like 1982” “Brand new terminals for air traffic controllers” “We're going to have sensors on runways” for when air traffic controllers cannot see the entire airport to help track aircraft. Secretary Duffy has also recruited some of Elon Musk’s SpaceX engineers to help develop plans for the above. Simple Fly.