Overhaul of nation's air traffic control system has started with training of controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...

Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a spotlight on the out-of-date ATC system and the air traffic controller shortage ...

A: The air traffic control systems are very complex and effective. Air traffic controllers use radar to separate traffic, issuing instructions to keep the required separation.

But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system, once the world’s most advanced, has become an international disgrace. Long before the Obama and Biden administrations’ ...

A better system was therefore needed. The introduction of the industrial-grade programmable logic controllers (PLC) made the control circuit less mechanically intensive and became more software-driven ...

A smaller building may have a single, computerized HVAC controller that operates the direct digital control (DDC) system. However, a large building normally requires a more complex system of ...

After LaGuardia went down, we could have expected other airports to go dark, as the not-sufficiently automated Air Traffic Control system falls under the load. Without air traffic controllers ...

The ongoing crisis at Newark Liberty International Airport has laid bare the sorry state of our nation’s air-traffic-control system. Equipment outages have left air-traffic controllers unable to ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

Upgrading control systems can often extend the life of power generation facilities by decades while reducing downtime and reducing required maintenance.

MELTAC is a control and monitoring system developed from the ground up specifically for nuclear applications. It was built around a common controller for both safety- and non-safety-related plant ...