Sep. 26 at 5:04 PM
$PSN The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has just two candidates vying to become the project manager of a multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul air traffic control in the U.S.
The FAA says it plans to pick a winner by the end of October to manage the contract.
The aging U.S. air traffic control system is badly in need of overhaul and routinely suffers serious technology outages. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the FAA has been forced at times to go to eBay to get spare parts. A government report last year said 51 of its 138 air traffic control systems are unsustainable.
Congress approved a
$12.5 billion plan to overhaul the nation's aging air traffic control system, and boost controller hiring following decades of complaints over airport congestion and flight delays. Duffy has said he is going to push for an additional
$19 billion from Congress for air traffic control reform.
$IBM is the other bidder under consideration. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/two-bidders-vie-to-be-project-manager-of-massive-faa-us-air-traffic-overhaul/ar-AA1NitnI
