The Department of Transportation is rolling out a new website to track progress in the sprawling effort to modernize the ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation announced it selected an integrator to manage upgrades to the U.S. air traffic control system, which in recent years has seen failures and outages that ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for industry to start working on and turning in their proposals for a contract to stand up a new air traffic control system for managing U ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it wants to adopt a new comprehensive system to overhaul how air traffic controllers receive flight data and move ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...

The Newark airport's air traffic control dilemma lit up when radar screens went dark in early May. Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with pilots. Some were reportedly so unnerved they later ...

U.S. air traffic control system is showing its age. Many of its critical systems are decades old, and some are starting to fail. We saw that during the radar and communication outages that led to ...

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Major airline CEOs on Wednesday called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in funding to modernize the United States' aging air traffic control system, saying it ...

In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...

On the anniversary of the D.C. plane crash that claimed the lives of 67 people, WTOP takes a look back in our series “Disaster on the Potomac, 1 year later” — and the changes that followed in its ...

The ongoing crisis at Newark Liberty International Airport has laid bare the sorry state of our nation’s air-traffic-control system. Equipment outages have left air-traffic controllers unable to track ...