The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering canceling its $2.4 billion air traffic control communications system contract with Verizon and instead enlisting Elon Musk’s satellite company, sources told The Washington Post.
The potential shift to Starlink, the satellite communications infrastructure under SpaceX, comes after a December General Services Administration (GSA) report highlighting an “urgent” need to modernize the FAA’s dated systems. The SpaceX founder has repeatedly criticized the FAA and suggested Verizon’s systems contributed to recent deadly aviation incidents — though he later issued a correction clarifying that Verizon’s systems haven’t yet been implemented and that L3Harris, a defense contractor, operates the “ancient system” currently running air traffic control infrastructure. (RELATED: ‘Accident Waiting To Happen’: Feds…
