House witness blames ATC risks on bureaucratic layers, citing NOTAM system at House hearing

Rinaldi Consultants President and Cofounder Paul Rinaldi testifies at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on the air traffic control system that a GAO report in 2024 reported 58 critical systems within the National Airspace System are either unsustainable or potentially unsustainable and posing risks to the airspace which stems from the broken FAA Acquisition Management System that is laden with bureaucratic layers adding years to modernization projects while controllers and technicians work with outdated technology from paper strips to floppy disks with a glaring example being the NOTAM system where despite Congress expediting money and demanding a new program the FAA still has not awarded the contract for a new system 26 months after an outage shut down the whole National Airspace System.
Rinaldi Consultants President and Cofounder Paul Rinaldi testifies at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on the air traffic control system that a GAO report in 2024 reported 58 critical systems within the National Airspace System are either unsustainable or potentially unsustainable and posing risks to the airspace which stems from the broken FAA Acquisition Management System that is laden with bureaucratic layers adding years to modernization projects while controllers and technicians work with outdated technology from paper strips to floppy disks with a glaring example being the NOTAM system where despite Congress expediting money and demanding a new program the FAA still has not awarded the contract for a new system 26 months after an outage shut down the whole National Airspace System.
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