US Transportation Secretary: Nationwide Flight Groundings Caused by Aging Systems, Calls on Congress for Emergency Funding
On November 13 local time, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Marin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy held a press conference at the White House regarding the nationwide airport flight grounding incident. They stated that the event was caused by a “telecommunications failure” and that the public “need not panic.”
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that during the implementation of the ground-stop order, there was no complete outage of the communications system or radar system. He attributed the failure to problems with the legacy network system and expressed hope that Congress would provide $50 billion in emergency funding to upgrade the air traffic control system.
Homeland Security Secretary Marin stated that the incident was unrelated to the recent Microsoft service and application outage. No evidence of a cyber attack or artificial intelligence interference has been found, and related response efforts are still underway. He added that outdated systems and data overload are the real risks to national security.
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