You Can Now Track FAA Efforts To Fix ‘Antiquated’ Air Traffic Control

Aerospace & Defense You Can Now Track FAA Efforts To Fix ‘Antiquated’ Air Traffic Control By Marisa Garcia,

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Offering an insider’s view of the business of flight.Follow Author May 25, 2026, 05:30am EDTWASHINGTON, DC - MAY 01: U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a news conference about adding more air traffic controllers to the workforce at the DOT headquarters on May 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. Counter to the Trump Administration's historic layoffs of federal workers, Duffy announced incentives to train new air traffic controllers and to retain controllers that may be close to retirement. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty ImagesLast May, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy committed to modernizing the “antiquated” infrastructure that forms the backbone of the U.S. national airspace system, much of which dates back to the 1960s. The effort, which has received $12.5 billion in funding through the One Big Beautiful Bill, would replace ageing infrastructure at over 4,600 sites nationwide that U.S. air traffic controllers use as they coordinate air traffic in a system that has grown twelvefold since the equipment was first installed.

Now, as proof of progress, the Federal Aviation Administration has launched a new website where travellers can track how far along the program to modernise air traffic control is, nationally and locally.