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At a press conference<\/a> today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday\u2019s nationwide ground stop<\/a> ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic line at a \u201cremote FAA facility.\u201d The secretary said that this was \u201croutine maintenance,\u201d rather than the result of a major modernization effort. He told reporters that it was \u201csuch an old wire that it was being discontinued, meaning that line was going to get shut down,\u201d necessitating the upgrade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What wasn\u2019t clear, according to Secretary Duffy, was the root cause of the problem. He said that it could have been faulty hardware, a misconfigured router, or \u201cincompetence\u201d on the part of contractor L3Harris. Regardless, what followed was the newly installed router \u201cflooding\u201d other routers in the Air Traffic Control system. Duffy said that there were \u201cover 1,000 connection attempts every 4 to 5 seconds,\u201d causing disruption to radar feeds and communication with planes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Secretary Duffy also took the opportunity to call on additional funding from Congress for modernizing the Air Traffic Control system<\/a>, and to tout the work the FAA has done so far. \u201cWe are building, we are building safely, but we are building fast,\u201d he said, but said that Congress had only given him a \u201cpartial payment\u201d to complete the necessary work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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At a press conference today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday\u2019s nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic line at a \u201cremote FAA facility.\u201d The secretary said that this was \u201croutine maintenance,\u201d rather than the result of a major modernization effort. 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