By: AJOT | Apr 16 2018 at 07:10 AM | Air Cargo News Washington, D.C. – Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today introduced the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 4), a five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, provide long-term stability for the Nation’s aviation community, continue investment in U.S. airports, […]
U.S. Navy SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic Awards Contract to DIGITALiBiz, Inc., Subcontractor Midwest ATC March 1, 2018 – Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc. (Midwest ATC) announced today that it has been awarded a subcontract position on a contract for engineering and operational support with the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) […]
Overland Park, Kansas – On Monday, September 26, 2005 a Russian built Antonov 124 (AN 124), arrived at Kansas City International Airport to pick up a mobile air traffic control tower for transport to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Midwest ATC, the first private sector contractor to provide air traffic control and airfield […]
So What’s the Deal with Air Traffic Control Reform? THE FIRST PART of President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan took flight Monday when the president called for the privatization of the country’s air traffic control system. “We’re still stuck with an ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible system that doesn’t work,” Trump said of the current air traffic […]
The House bill containing provisions that could remove air traffic control from the FAA’s auspices and hand it over to an airline-controlled private monopoly may have lost some momentum in Congress recently, with an expected House vote delayed for now. But as opposition to the bill builds, it does so in the face of relentless efforts […]
