{"id":1236238,"date":"2025-03-02T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236238"},"modified":"2025-03-02T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:52:36","slug":"faa-reportedly-ordered-staff-to-find-millions-of-dollars-to-fund-starlink-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236238","title":{"rendered":"FAA reportedly ordered staff to find millions of dollars to fund Starlink deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Rolling Stone<\/ins><\/em><\/a>, employees with the Federal Aviation Administration were told on Friday to \u201cbegin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal,\u201d after The Washington Post<\/ins><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reported that the FAA may cancel its $2.4 billion contract with Verizon<\/ins><\/a> to overhaul the US\u2019s airspace management systems and go with Elon Musk\u2019s company instead. Whether the FAA has actually dropped its Verizon deal in favor of Starlink has yet to be confirmed publicly. In a statement posted on X<\/ins><\/a> in response to the initial report last week, the FAA claimed it\u2019s \u201cbeen considering the use of Starlink since the prior administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anonymous sources told Rolling Stone<\/em> that the orders from FAA officials on Friday were \u201cdelivered verbally\u201d to staff, in an \u201cunusual\u201d move. It comes a few days after Musk claimed<\/ins><\/a> on X that the situation around air traffic control communications is \u201cextremely dire,\u201d saying the existing system (which he wrongly attributed to Verizon before later adding a correction<\/ins><\/a>) is \u201cbreaking down very rapidly.\u201d He went on to say that \u201cStarlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis to restore air traffic control connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg<\/ins><\/em><\/a>, citing sources close to the matter, previously reported that 4,000 Starlink terminals were being sent to help upgrade the FAA\u2019s networks, which the FAA confirmed. As recently as Wednesday, though, the FAA said in statements to The Washington Post <\/em>and other publications that it had not made a decision about its Verizon deal. The agency is one of many that has been hit by layoffs led by Musk\u2019s DOGE over the last few weeks, with hundreds of FAA employees<\/ins><\/a> fired in February.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/transportation\/faa-reportedly-ordered-staff-to-find-millions-of-dollars-to-fund-starlink-deal-205236985.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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