A Factory Now Backs the FAA's Air Traffic Control Rebuild
A newly built plant in Maryland will start producing the switching hardware controllers use to route voice traffic between sectors, supplying the FAA's long-running effort to replace its aging air traffic control infrastructure nationwide. For owners flying IFR through the country's busiest corridors, hardware finally reaching a production line is the clearest signal yet that the overhaul is moving past planning documents and into procurement.
With reporting from AVweb.
