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EPISODE · Sep 3, 2026 · 35 MIN
[News] The FAA Is Buying a New Air Traffic System, and Its Own Workforce Plan Says the Technicians Must Run Both
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The widely repeated claim that roughly 400 FAA radar technicians were cut does not survive the agency's own documents, but the FAA's first published technician workforce plan says the $12.5 billion modernization will increase the workload on a workforce it cannot fully staff today.
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