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Sean Duffy: “We're still using copper, we're still using floppy disks…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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The Conference: Transportation with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

Published | Video Starts at 08:21

And because they're the best, I think they were able to take some time and not really update the system. And time just has become years to decades. And so I was shocked again. We're still using copper, we're still using floppy disks, we're using duct tape, we're using paper strips. We have our newest radar was I think 1983, but they're 1970s, 1960s and some 1950s genre radar. We have really old towers, so our bricks and mortar are really old. (08:21–08:29)

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Asserts that outdated technology is still in use in the FAA's systems.

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