'I hope it’s a call for more funding from Congress that’s desperately needed to modernize the air traffic control system,' one aviation expert said.
With the FAA up for reauthorization in Congress this year, those same experts said they hope the government uses the opportunity to fund needed upgrades to the agency's IT systems.A Notice to Air Missions provides pilots and other flight personnel with real-time safety information on flight operations and airports.
Mark Dombroff, an aviation lawyer and partner at Fox Rothschild who formerly worked with the FAA and Department of Justice, compared the NOTAM system to the computers we all use every day."Our systems still crash," he said."You shut your system down, and you reboot it. ... The system comes back, and you continue to work it."Another expert said Wednesday's failure highlights a need to make the NOTAM system more redundant.
Arjun Garg, a partner at the Hogan Lovells law firm and former FAA chief counsel, said the agency's technology is typically complicated and often outdated as a result of funding and implementation cycles in government
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