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FAA replaces floppy-disk displays and opens first digital towers
Tracking: FAA air traffic control modernizationFAA efforts to replace outdated air traffic control infrastructure, including floppy-disk-based information displays with E-IDS and digital towers, along with funding, procurement, schedule and congressional oversight of the broader modernization program.
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- Ars Technica Space · Friday, Nov 6
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Updated yesterdayThe FAA is replacing 1980s-era floppy-disk-based information displays with the Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS) at about 435 air traffic control facilities. It also announced its first digital towers operating at Bartow Executive Airport in Florida and Kenai Municipal Airport in Alaska under a newly approved program. The items show no upcoming hearings, votes or deadlines.
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share of articles- Technical milestones2 · 67%FAA is swapping floppy-disk-based displays for E-IDS across roughly 435 facilities, as reported by Ars Technica and AIAA.FAA
- Regulation1 · 33%FAA announced digital towers are operational at Bartow (FL) and Kenai (AK), the first under its newly approved digital tower program, which Administrator Bryan Bedford backs as a lower-cost alternative.FAA · Bryan Bedford
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3 articles6d agoAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsFAA Begins Phasing Out Floppy Disks in Air Traffic Control Upgrade 8d agoAVwebDigital Towers Operational at Two Airports 9d agoArs Technica SpaceEarliestFAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade