Sean Duffy: “You will have more of these unless the American people and the Congress tell us to build.”

What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system.

We need to figure out better how these projects can work together with community, states, private capital and with us all coming together to make them feasible for the communities that use them.

The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.

Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and … they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down.