FAA back at "full operations" after Friday outage, Transportation Sec. says
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that all FAA systems are back to "full operations" after an hours-long outage Friday evening that grounded all air traffic across the U.S. The big picture: Duffy reiterated his plea to Congress to fund upgrades to the nation's air traffic control equipment, explaining that proper upgrades could have prevented the ground stop. Driving the news: Duffy explained that the outage was caused when a contractor performed routine maintenance on a telecommunications line to upgrade a copper wire to fiber-optic cable and install a new router."It was such
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