The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday it awarded Verizon Communications' business networking unit a contract worth up to $2.4 billion over 15 years as the agency looks to modernize its systems.
People visit the Verizon stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
business networking unit a contract worth up to $2.4 billion over 15 years as the agency looks to modernize its systems. Verizon said the new infrastructure will support all of the agency's mission critical applications across the National Airspace System, which includes providing Air Traffic Management to more than 45,000 daily flights and 2.9 million airline passengers traveling across 29 million square miles that make up the U.S. national airspace system.
He added the it would provide "dynamic services and bandwidth provisioning, to improved insight and visibility into network service configuration and operation."In January, the outage of a key pilot messaging database prompted a nationwide groundstop of U.S. passenger traffic, the first since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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