Elon Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is going to work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to give the country’s air traffic control (ATC) systems an upgrade, according to a series of posts to X on Wednesday.
The two agencies will work together to make “rapid safety upgrades” to ATC systems, Musk said in a post on his social media platform X.
The announcement comes just days after the FAA announced a temporary outage of its aviation warning system for pilots on Saturday. It’s worth noting that this warning system, known as the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, is separate from the in-flight air traffic control system.
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