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In a hearing before the US Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) acting administrator Billy Nolen said that the agency has taken steps to help prevent a repeat of the January 11 Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage. Nolen told the panel, “After the incident, we implemented a synchronization delay to ensure …

In a January 19 statement, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that according to a preliminary review, “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database. The agency has so far found no evidence of a cyber-attack or malicious intent.” The statement also notes …

An outage of the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAMS) caused the agency to ground domestic flight departures earlier this week. The FAA permitted air traffic to resume after 9 am on Wednesday. The FAA says that the problem appears to have been a damaged database file. NOTAMS, which operates …

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating what disrupted GPS and caused some flights in Texas to be rerouted. On Monday, October 17, the FAA released an alert over its Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) that “GPS reported unreliable within 40 NM of DFW.” Over the next day, the disturbance spread to Waco, and …