But in one beautiful bill, or the great big beautiful bill, whatever the name is supposed to be, the Congress gave us $12.5 billion as a down payment for, for upgrading the system. Now, it's not all that we need. We need 31.5 billion [for air traffic control system upgrades]. But the 12.5 billion that we do have is going to go to new radar, new voice switches, new radios, new telecom. We're using copper wires instead of, instead of fiber. (02:25–02:33)
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