Posted on 03/06/2025 6:59:34 AM PST by Salman
Over a third of the USA’s air traffic control systems are in an “unsustainable" state, and the FAA's decades-long project to upgrade them is not going well.
That concerning situation was described on Tuesday by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) in testimony to the House committee on transportation and infrastructure’s subcommittee on aviation.
The auditors at the GAO examined 138 ATC operations and found that 51 (37 percent) were considered "unsustainable" by the FAA and 54 (39 percent) were "potentially unsustainable."
The FAA deployed six of the ATC systems 60 years ago, and 40 are 30 years old. 72 have been in operation for over two decades. Spare parts are scarce, and trained personnel to maintain them are becoming harder to find.
"The FAA’s reliance on a large percentage of aging and unsustainable or potentially unsustainable collection of ATC systems introduces risks to the FAA's ability to ensure the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic," said Heather Krause, the GAO's managing director of physical infrastructure, in testimony to US House reps.
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You're on to something here, I am sure of it.
Funny movie. Who knew, back then, that the comedic idiocy would become reality... thanks to the DEI push by the radical left (Democrats). All part of that “fundamental transformation” bit, no doubt.
Who would have ever thought that DEC would disappear? On one project I worked on we must have had fifty MicroVaxes spread across five operational centers.
The fact that a circuit board “wears” was something it took a bit to wrap my head around.
The machines are still good. I can replace the cylinders, bearings, etc. I can’t get something to tell it what to do.
PDP11s lasted almost 50 years. Device net half that.
I made a career working on HP 1000s into the 2010s. Most programmers move on to the latest and greatest - but when layoffs come, if you’re the only one left with legacy knowledge, they don’t axe you. Spent 35 years at one company
I have fond memories of the mini-computers: HP, TI, DEC, DG, SEL, on and on.
Oh, no kidding!! That was a shock. Mini-computers in general went "poof" and were gone.
YES,THIS GOES BACK TO THE OBAMA ADMINSTRATION!
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