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Apparently a "Telecommunication issue" and not a threat issue. Sounds like a cyberattack?
All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice,
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Looks like they decided to roll out their new AI air traffic control route management system on Friday the 13th. This was, of course, in hindsight, a bad idea.
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We will as always meme our way through The Situation as we continue to monitor.
The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide
The FAA is expanding use of an $875 million AI tool, SMART, to "assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system," but the agency says that the route-management software will not affect air safety.
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We will as always meme our way through The Situation as we continue to monitor.
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Don't let them hear you.
Markwayne Mullin Chides Reporter Amid FAA Ground Stoppage Chaos: ‘We Call it SI’
The stunning moment came as DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was briefing reporters on the Federal Aviation Administration's sudden halting of all flights.
The President calls it 'SI' because he's increasingly addled and doesn't realize that term already has a meaning. Everyone else repeating it is just being a toady.Don't let them hear you.
Markwayne Mullin Chides Reporter Amid FAA Ground Stoppage Chaos: ‘We Call it SI’
The stunning moment came as DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was briefing reporters on the Federal Aviation Administration's sudden halting of all flights.www.yahoo.com
But I guess Markwayne problems require Markwayne solutions.
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What fuckin morons inhabit the WH. Good
Lord.
Lord.
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Trump & Musk biographer has a rundown o f the press conference. It was "interesting".
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I watched the presser with the Secretaries of Transportation and DHS. Apparently, many elements of their system are pretty old and a software update caused some cascading failures. Updates on live networked systems are the nightmare scenario of system managers. They have brought down Bell and Rogers to name two.
As an aside, it must be in the Cabinet manual that they must praise Trump at least once per paragraph.
As an aside, it must be in the Cabinet manual that they must praise Trump at least once per paragraph.
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Overnight maybe but I don't think there's ever a good time for US airspace to not be busy.
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I thought I read that they pushed the update out Wednesday, but it took 24-36hrs for the problems to emerge.
That could well be, yeah. Not gonna pretend I know anything about those systems.
possibly because the system was going to crash at some unpredictable point if they didn't. The FAA started work on a new system in 2003: called it nextgen. As of 2024 when the office closed they had achieved less than 20% of their stated goals. Without going into great detail, the goal was to replace the airways structure and RADAR tracking with ADS-B and GPS routes. This was largely successful as far as the software was concerned but the programming was layered onto decades old systems and it simply wasn't possible to re-fit enough of the older fleets of aircraft to operate on the new format. The owners weren't about to invest in systems that wouldn't provide payback until the FAA updated their ground systems to match so the system never reached that critical point where they could switch over. Their estimates on software costs didn't even begin to cover the reality (my fears regarding HS trains incidentally) so hardware updates largely went by the wayside. Consequently procedures couldn't be changed to reflect the new software.
