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

[Allan Streib]

Some of the tech boards I lurk on seem to think AI will solve this.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, at 21:39, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote:
> There is that, too!
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> Not a simple system and impossible to just swap in a new one across the board.
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> Peter
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>> On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:00 PM, Rich Benzer via Mercedes <mercedes at okiebenz.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> —HF
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>>> On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:55 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes <mercedes at okiebenz.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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