Chris Sununu on FAA System Failure: ‘It Was a Combination of the Old Hardware of the Router and the New Software’

RUSH EXCERPT:

SUNUNU: “Well, so again, the upgrade is happening, which is great. It‘s happening very quickly, but there are so many pieces to it. Right? So part of it is going from all these old copper lines to the new fiber lines. Part of it is the radar systems, the radio systems. In this case, it was the routers. And the routers really were taking a. it was a combination of the old hardware of the router and the new software. They couldn‘t kind of mesh together and they were logging too much information. And the router said, okay, we have too much information. I‘ll kick it to the next router and I‘ll shut down. And the next router did the same thing, and the next router did the same thing. So it was kind of this unforeseen chain reaction. And the net result is it shuts the comms down. And so again I give the FAA credit. It happened. It was completely unforeseen. They said safety first. Right. We‘re always going to put we have the safest system in the world.”