David Soucie on FAA Modernization: ‘Every Time You Introduce Something New, You’re Creating New Vulnerabilities’

RUSH EXCERPT:

SOUCIE: “We didn‘t use floppy disks in 1990. We didn‘t use well, we did in 1990. In 2000, we weren‘t using floppy disks. We were using cd roms. That‘s true. In 1990, we were, in 99. We did as well. But, uh, this system you have to understand, and people have talked about how, you know, windows 98 is what they‘re using and all these other things. To my knowledge, I don‘t know that we‘ve ever used a windows product. Every product project I‘ve ever worked on with the FAA has been customized digital software that was built for it. Now, there was hardware that was built that we still used in 1999, that was built in the 60s actually. So trying to make that work was always a problem. My, my concern is that we don‘t just say, hey, let‘s just throw out the baby with the bathwater, either here or there. Every time you introduce something new, you‘re creating new vulnerabilities.”