<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Some of the tech boards I lurk on seem to think AI will solve this.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, at 21:39, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space;"><div>There is that, too!</div><div class="qt-"><br></div><div class="qt-">Not a simple system and impossible to just swap in a new one across the board.</div><div class="qt-"><br></div><div class="qt-"><div>Peter</div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="qt-"><div class="qt-">On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:00 PM, Rich Benzer via Mercedes <<a href="mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com" class="qt-">mercedes@okiebenz.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div class="qt-"><div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space;" class="qt-"><div>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.</div><div class="qt-"><br></div><div class="qt-"><div>\u2014HF</div><div class="qt-"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="qt-"><div class="qt-">On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:55\u202fPM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes <<a href="mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com" class="qt-">mercedes@okiebenz.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div class="qt-"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space-collapse:collapse;text-wrap-mode:wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-thickness:auto;text-decoration-style:solid;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;float:none;display:inline !important;" class="qt-"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">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.</span></span></span></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>-- </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.okiebenz.com" class="qt-">http://www.okiebenz.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/</div><div><br></div><div>To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:</div><div>http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div>-- </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.okiebenz.com">http://www.okiebenz.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>To search list archives <a href="http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/">http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/</a></div><div><br></div><div>To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:</div><div><a href="http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com">http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>