Sean Duffy Introduces 3-Year Plan For New 'Envy-Of-The-World’ Air Traffic Control System

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During President Trump’s Cabinet meeting on Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy discussed the plans to develop a new air traffic control system.

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00:00Respect to it and we were going to I said day one if this happens with we are successful

00:07We're gonna have to get a brand new

00:10modern top-of-the-line air traffic

00:13System and I think I can say that I've been working a little bit with Sean on it

00:18But Sean's been working hard on it and with his new person at FDA who's going to be terrific by the way

00:24And maybe you want to talk to them about that because we need safety in the air total safety in the air

00:29And this will give that to you

00:32We had a conversation on Friday

00:35again, our our air traffic control system as we talked about maybe privately or I don't know publicly with all of you, but

00:42We have decades of ideas and billions of dollars and no progress is ever made on any of these initiatives

00:49Air traffic control is the same thing. And so

00:52We're having a conversation about building a state-of-the-art brand new best technology envy of the world

00:59Air traffic control system and what's interesting from from the doge team is they'll look and say well, what is the problem?

01:05Why hasn't this been built? This is about safety. This is about people's lives all of you fly your family flies

01:11Why hasn't it been done and the problem is in government? It takes way too long

01:15So technology changes and money changes and administrations change

01:19We have to do this fast, which is why we need the partnership from the Congress to give us the money up front

01:25The best ideas and the best technology available in the world. We're gonna build in the system

01:29I think mr. President we can do it in three years

01:32I think Trump Tower was built in three or three and a half years. I think we could

01:35Match the Trump Tower timeframe

01:45Again it's a it's a we have to choreograph

01:48Because again, our towers are operational keeping planes in the air

01:53So it's a we got to choreograph this but we can do it in short order

01:57I can just make one other point. Mr. President

02:00We're 36 trillion dollars in debt. You've never had a doge. We've never come in and looked at our government the way

02:07Mr. President you've looked at this government and said there's too many people there's there's contracts

02:12Fraud waste and abuse and so we've had a few bumps in the road as we've gone through this process

02:17But if you look around this room

02:19everybody

02:20Has has seen the how the process has evolved and everyone appreciates some of the insight

02:27and and technical support that we've gotten to make this government more efficient to

02:32Make it more responsive to the American people. And so again when you have a new system like this, you'll get some bumps, but

02:41Things are rolling out the last three weeks have been much much better as our teams have integrated and we're working

02:47To to deliver for the American people and I would say some of the press had made comments last time about

02:52What happened in the last meeting?

02:54We had a great conversation in the last meeting. Eli and I had a great call

02:59After after the meeting and so sometimes the reporting can be a little bit off. I love the

03:07Analysis that you guys do when you're not in the room, but I just know that we're working well together

03:11Mr. President and the whole team here is working well together

03:14Well, actually we decided to see you after the cabinet meeting

Sean Duffy Introduces 3-Year Plan For New 'Envy-Of-The-World’ Air Traffic Control System

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