Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged lawmakers to secure tens of billions of dollars in funding to revamp the nation’s overburdened Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control systems.

The Department of Transportation will build a “brand new air traffic control system” by 2028, Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday. “The FAA is going to undertake an initiative that has never been ...

The transportation secretary announced a far-reaching plan to drastically overhaul the current technology used by thousands of controllers responsible for guiding planes in and out of airports.

More than a dozen airport towers would be revamped, and the agency’s telecommunications network would be replaced with new fiber, wireless and satellite systems over the next three years.

The plan calls for six new air traffic control centres, along with an array of technology and communications upgrades over the next three or four years.