RTX and Indra will help the agency replace more than 600 radars by June 2028 to create a "surveillance backbone,” according to the Monday announcement.

RTX, based in Arlington, Virginia, and Indra, based in Madrid, have agreed to replace up to 612 radars by June 2028.

Contractors RTX and Indra will replace the radar systems by the summer of 2028. “Our radar network is outdated and long overdue for replacement."

Few lawmakers and reporters even seemed aware that thousands of other federal watchdogs spent six weeks on their couches.

Federal Aviation Administration officials are warning lawmakers that the $12.5 billion Congress approved last year to begin modernizing the nation’s air traffic control system will not be enough to fix deep structural flaws embedded across U.

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford have announced the FAA will replace the nation’s aging radar system.

The FAA has chosen RTX and Indra to replace 612 outdated radar systems in the US as part of a multibillion-dollar air traffic control modernization effort.

The FAA in October 2024 published a special federal aviation regulation (SFAR) with seismic implications for the aviation industry—a framework for the early integration of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.