BARTOW, Fla. — The Polk County School District is hoping a new state-of-the-art program can help fill the need for air traffic controllers in the county and nationwide. The past few weeks have been ...

The United States Government took a major step forward Monday in its overhaul of the country’s aging air traffic control system by awarding two companies new contracts to supply new radar systems.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) chief told lawmakers Tuesday that U.S. air traffic control towers are unlikely to ever reach full staffing levels if the agency continues operating as it ...

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it has picked Peraton, a national security company owned by Veritas Capital, as the project manager of a $12.5-billion effort to overhaul the aging ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation and FAA released a joint statement today, December 5, announcing that national security and technology company Peraton will be the Prime Integrator of the ...

Peraton has emerged as the winner to overhaul the air traffic control system, securing a contract to oversee the multi-billion-dollar project with the Federal Aviation Administration. In an ...

Airlines are gradually getting flight schedules back to normal. Congress can shut down government operations, but when airlines cancelled flights, Americans took notice. It’s clear that the Air ...

The recent government shutdown disrupted U.S. air traffic control (ATC) and frustrated millions of passengers, leading to delays and cancellations. Our ATC system is a bureaucracy within the Federal ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it wants to adopt a new comprehensive system to overhaul how air traffic controllers receive flight data and move ...

Andrew Langer counsels that we should fund air-traffic control during a shutdown, not privatize it (Letters, Nov. 12). Fair enough, but there’s another sensible option. Keeping ATC in the federal ...

Privatizing air traffic control could help prevent flight delays over the holiday season. Airlines are gradually getting flight schedules back to normal. Congress can shut down government operations, ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...