The nation's aging air traffic control system will be replaced with one that is aimed at 21st-century needs while improving safety, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday.

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WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is unveiling a multi-billion-dollar plan to upgrade air traffic control technology and hire more controllers in an effort to address recent flight ...

The Transportation Department is undertaking a massive effort to modernize the nation’s outdated air traffic control system, with the agency’s head announcing on Thursday that he hopes to ...

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) released a budget reconciliation proposal Tuesday that would allocate $15 billion for the modernization of air tra… ...

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee estimated last week that it might cost $12.5 billion to overhaul the air traffic control system, but that estimate was developed before the ...

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Federal transportation officials are promising to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the nation’s air traffic control system, which aviation officials said are some of the radars, radio ...

One month before the FAA moved control of Newark’s airspace from New York to Philadelphia, the air traffic controllers’ union raised serious safety concerns about the feasibility of the plan.

The plan also includes investing in new ground radar sensors on tarmacs and at airports, a new flight management system and some new air traffic control towers and other facilities, Duffy said.