Transportation secretary to announce overhaul of air traffic control system

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will unveil a major overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system Thursday. While the effort was already in motion, recent delays and safety concerns at Newark Airport have brought new urgency to the effort. Duffy says the plan includes modernizing telecom, radar and infrastructure, along with hiring more controllers, calling it a fix for a problem decades in the making.

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