The days of 1980s-era floppy disks, paper flight strips, and copper wiring guiding millions of flights are officially over at the Federal Aviation Administration. Under Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the FAA is in the midst of a no-nonsense, results-driven modernization blitz—replacing legacy junk with fiber optics, digital displays, AI tools, and a “Brand New Air Traffic Control System” (BNATCS). It’s one of the biggest U.S. infrastructure projects in decades, backed b