Chris Sununu: $12 Billion Was Just a ‘Down Payment’ on Air Traffic Control System Overhaul

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SUNUNU: “Yeah. So the 12 billion was kind of yeah, we call it the down payment or going after the lowest hanging fruit, really trying to rebuild some of the resiliency into the system. The next round of funding kind of keeps replacing the old legacy, but then also uses these new technologies to come in. You know, it‘s interesting right now all the different air traffic control towers effectively use different software. They have different screens, they have different everything. They‘ve all been patched together over the past 70 or 80 years. And so now what they‘re trying to do is build what they call a common automation platform, which kind of makes sure that an air traffic controller in des moines is seeing the same screen, gets the same data and gets trained on the same system as an air traffic controller in newark. That‘s kind of the next piece, kind of more of a nationalized”