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Secretary Duffy on the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Name: Secretary Duffy on the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Uploaded: 2025-06-19T20:58:30+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Your Advisor
Description: Secretary Duffy outlines a $12.5 billion plan to modernize the FAA's aging infrastructure, replacing 1970s radar, copper wires with fiber, and outdated…

19 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Secretary Duffy outlines a $12.5 billion plan to modernize the FAA's aging infrastructure, replacing 1970s radar, copper wires with fiber, and outdated voice switches. The bill funds a new en route facility and tower upgrades to rebuild systems that have fallen far behind.

Questions this video answers

$12.5 billion ("12 and a half billion dollars").

June 19, 2025.

Copper wires and 1970s-era radar (as stated: "the FAA is one of the last organizations... that still uses copper" and "we're using 1970s radar").

Move from copper to fiber; new radios; new voice switches; new radar; upgrades to some towers; a new en route facility.

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In the big beautiful bill, there's 12 and a half billion dollars that's going to be deployed for an upgrade of telecom. What does that mean? It means we're going to move from copper wires to fiber, which, by the way, the FAA is one of the last organizations in the world that still uses copper. We're going to get new radios, and we're going to get new voice switches. As part of that Money, we're using 1970s radar. In that money, we get new radar as well. And we're going to have money to upgrade some of the towers, not all of them, and have a new in route facility that's going to be funded. So the big beautiful bill is the one pathway we have right now that's going to start the funding, start the process, start the building, start the fixing of this old antiquated system.