[Mercedes] The FAA and its problems: A solution?

Rich Benzer rich.benzer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 21:00:25 EDT 2026


Way back when a company I worked for had some sort of software oversight contract on the new ATC system.  Given the gummint procurement and project management process, it took over 10 years to develop software that was obsolete 5yr into the project.

—HF

> On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:55 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes <mercedes at okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> Old computers  (since Congress never seems to want to spend any money on air traffic control), ancient radars, and failure to fund recruitment and training fill out the picture.

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