<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There is that, too!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not a simple system and impossible to just swap in a new one across the board.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:00 PM, Rich Benzer via Mercedes <<a href="mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com" class="">mercedes@okiebenz.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\u2014HF<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2026, at 8:55\u202fPM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes <<a href="mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com" class="">mercedes@okiebenz.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>-- <br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.okiebenz.com" class="">http://www.okiebenz.com</a><br class=""><br class="">To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/<br class=""><br class="">To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:<br class="">http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>