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The Trump administration is bringing the nation’s aviation system into the digital age, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asserting on Tuesday long-delayed upgrades on the FAA and outlining plans to repair Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport.
Duffy mentioned throughout Trump’s ninth Cupboard assembly that the company quick tracked the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) shift from copper to fiber infrastructure and dedicated to purchasing new radios and radars.
“Many of you have heard that we have an infrastructure made of copper. We have to transition to fiber. The last administration said it was going to take more than 10 years to complete the transition from copper to fiber. They had no plan to actually do it,” Duffy mentioned, including that the present administration has already accomplished a 3rd of this transition.
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Duffy admitted that it’s nonetheless going to take longer for the nation’s aviation system to transition from analog to digital, however the administration is dedicated to doing so.
“The rest of the world transitioned 20 years ago from analog to digital. We are just going to do that at the FAA, right now. But we’re buying new radios. We’re going to buy new radar. By the way, those radar [are] going to be made in America,” he added.
Trump and Duffy additionally introduced plans to repair Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport in Virginia, which they argued is designed poorly.
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“We’re going to turn that around and we’re going to make Dulles Airport… into something really spectacular,” Trump mentioned.
President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday introduced plans to repair Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport in Virginia. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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Dulles stays a important airport because it handles the vast majority of long-haul worldwide flights within the area, and is significant for diplomats, authorities officers, worldwide organizations and international enterprise vacationers. It is also a key hub for United Airways.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority reported that Dulles noticed 9.3 million worldwide passengers in 2023, a brand new file that exceeded 2022’s worldwide exercise by 26.9%.
Regardless of being a important worldwide gateway, the airport has lengthy been criticized for its infrastructure that officers say feels caught within the Nineteen Sixties slightly than up to date to trendy requirements. As an example, officers have known as on eliminating Dulles’ “people movers” – a kind of airport shuttle automobile formally generally known as cellular lounges – as a result of they’re outdated.
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Trent Morse, a nominee for the board of administrators of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority who’s pushing for his or her removing, has known as them a “relic of the past,” in accordance with Axios.
Equally, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has described them as “glacial” and “tank-like.”
