Sec. Duffy: Every Company, They’ve All Switched from an Old Copper Wire Network to Digital Fiber, Everybody But the FAA

RUSH EXCERPT:
DUFFY: "I want to be clear the world, every institution, every company they’ve all switched over from an old copper wire network. They’ve all gone to digital fiber networks Everybody but the FAA And so for decades there’s been underinvestment or no investment in the FAA and the architecture of our infrastructure So we’re stuck with an old network that by the way costs hundreds of millions of dollars to operate because it’s so obsolete And what I’m doing is saying hey, Congress, this is old There’s issues with how it operates Let’s build a brand new system And this is, by the way, Martha this will be the one great bipartisan bill that can pass in an era of great partisanship Everybody agrees that we want to have the best system in the world We just need funding to get that done And I think the Congress can find a way to find the money to invest in the economy and air travel and safety And I hope that before the end of the year They’ll see what happened on Friday and make the critical investment to make sure that we don’t see these disruptions again in the future"