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Diverse Air Traffic Control Team Working in a Modern Airport Tower at Night. Office Room is Full of Desktop Computer Displays with Navigation Screens, Airplane Flight Radar Data for Controllers.

Technology

A federally funded lab comes up with a potential solution to safe use of drones in the national air space

Manned and unmanned aircraft operating safely together is still an air traffic control challenge. It's a step closer to a solution thanks to an award-winning project at a federally funded research and development center know as FFRDC.

Facilities/Construction

FAA calling on architects to come up with new air traffic control tower designs

Federal Drive

Next gen air traffic systems turning airspace into digital network

Federal Newscast

FAA whistleblower claims managers in Jacksonville are creating dangerous situation

Agency in Focus

FAA modernizing Mission Support, examining cloud possibilities

Budget

Trump budget plan doubles down on government reorganization

Federal Drive

James Burnley: Former Reagan official backs privatizing air traffic control

Glenn Johnson - index

Federal Drive

Glenn Johnson: State opposition to privatizing air traffic control

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Department of Justice, Friday, June 2, 2017, in Washington. The Justice Department’s No. 2 official says a new policy urging harsher punishments for most criminals is meant to target the worst criminals, not fill prisons. Rosenstein says that federal prosecutors will sometimes charge lower-level criminals to take down entire gangs but adds “that’s the exception, not the rule.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Federal Newscast

Federal contractor charged with leaking classified information to the press

Katie Thomson

Federal Drive

Katie Thomson: NextGen, Air Traffic Control, future for FAA

Mike Causey

Mike Causey

Privatizing your job

Gerald Dillingham

Federal Drive

Gerald Dillingham: Will air traffic control become its own entity?

Sharon Pinkerton

Federal Drive

Sharon Pinkerton: Next generation air traffic control

Federal Drive

Peter Dumont, President, Air Traffic Control Association

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Air Force transferring air traffic control to locals in Iraq