[News] The FAA Is Buying a New Air Traffic System, and Its Own Workforce Plan Says the Technicians Must Run Both
The widely repeated claim that roughly 400 FAA radar technicians were cut does not survive the agency's own documents, but the FAA's first published technician workforce plan says the $12.5 billion modernization will increase the workload on a workforce it cannot fully staff today.
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