Because 25 years ago, the FAA and the Congress understood that they had an old air traffic control system again 25 years ago. And They committed to spending billions of dollars to do what they called next gen. They too, wanted to get rid of floppy disks, an old fiber network. They wanted to get rid of the paper flight strips. (03:34–03:41)
CLAIM
Asserts that billions were committed to updating the air traffic control system under the "next gen" initiative.
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