Software and devUpdated November 7

Experts say squeezing decades of air-traffic upgrades into three years could be risky.

The FAA’s modernization reaches far beyond displays: it covers radar, software, hardware and telecommunications across six workstreams. The transport secretary’s $42.5bn project aims to squeeze decades of upgrades into three years, a pace experts argue could be risky. E-IDS is one element of that wider effort, replacing legacy floppy-drive systems; the risk assessment is about the compressed overhaul as a whole.

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Coverage started November 7