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Air Halt Reveals US Gaps
A failure in an aging communications network used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration halted flight departures nationwide for more than four hours and disrupted about 11,000 flights scheduled to carry more than 1.5 million passengers. The outage exposed how more than 300 facilities rely on outdated technologies and systems. The Government Accountability Office classified 51 of 138 systems as unsustainable and another 54 as potentially unsustainable. Modernization efforts face planning and coordination challenges, despite Congress allocating $12.5 billion and the Department of Transportation requesting an additional $30.1 billion. The FAA aims to complete the first phase by December 2028.
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