Sec. Duffy Says FAA Outage Was Caused by Work to Replace Old Copper Wiring with Fiber Optic

RUSH EXCERPT:

DUFFY: "At least one of our remote locations, a contractor was doing routine maintenance to switch telecommunication lines from old, copper wire and they were bringing it over to fiber. That contractor. That does the work for us as l, three Harris. There are a legacy provider they’ve been working for the FDA for over 20 years and the network that we use the F way to control the airspace. L three Harris actually owns that network. Now the work happening was due to the age of the copper wire that we were replacing."