FAA reportedly ordered staff to find millions of dollars to fund Starlink deal

According to RoundThe federal aviation administration was not on Friday “I will start to start to find ten million for a starlink bargain” Washington Post reported to be FAA can cancel a $ 2.4 billion contract with Verizon To overhaul the US airline management systems and go with the company of Elon Musk instead. In fact, the FAA’s Verizon deal was declined in favor of Starlink or not yet clearly.

Anonymous sources explained Round On Friday, the FAA officials were given “verbally” employees in the “unusual” action of orders. Comes a few days after Musk claimed The situation around the control communication of air traffic in the X X called “extremely heavy”, the existing system (later belonging to Verizona wrong) a correction) “It is broken down very quickly.” He said “It is not sent to the taxpayer on the basis of an ambulance to restore air traffic to the air traffic.”

BloombergDespite the sources close to the issue, 4,000 starlink terminals were sent to help improve the Network of FAA, which previously approved the FAA. In a statement that was sent X In response to last week, the FAA claimed that this “reviewed Starlink since pre-management.” Recently, as Wednesday, FAA said in statements Washington Post and other publications that do not decide on its verizon deal.

The agency is most of those who have been hit by the shootings led by Dogin in the past few weeks Hundreds of FAA employees fired in February.