The nation's aging air traffic control system will be replaced with one that is aimed at 21st-century needs while improving safety, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday.

Congress approved a sweeping budget deal that includes $12.5 billion to modernize America’s aging air traffic control system.

PAU has framed the project as building on the legacy of I.M. Pei’s midcentury air traffic control tower designs.Pei won a 1962 commission to design 13 iterations of towers adaptable to a range ...

It set aside $500 million for the design and early construction of the projects, which were scheduled to break ground last year. “These new air traffic control towers will mean that smaller ...

Federal watchdogs have raised concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system for decades, an ABC analysis of government reports found.

A 2023 FAA Inspector General report showed 20 of 26 critical air traffic control facilities are staffed below the agency’s 85% threshold, with New York’s Terminal Radar Approach Control at 54%.

President Trump said Thursday that he wanted to overhaul America’s air traffic control system following last week’s deadly collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter in… ...