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Sean Duffy: “We're using, you know, 1980s ASK equipment. We have radar…”

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

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Interview with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Newark Airport Air Traffic Control Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 06:04

But we're left with again, 3,000 short and we're going to fix the problem as well as trying to fix the infrastructure. I don't know if you saw our press conference last week. We're using, you know, 1980s ASK equipment. We have radar that date back to the 70s. The systems are really old. They should have been updated a long time ago. And so now we need new telecom and we need all, we need all new equipment … (06:04–06:12)

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Asserts that the current equipment and radar systems are outdated, dating back to the 1980s and 1970s.

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