Musk’s SpaceX team to visit key FAA command center to make ‘rapid safety upgrades’

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced late Sunday that employees of Elon Musk’s SpaceX will head to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia on Monday as part of the Trump administration’s promise to make “rapid safety upgrades” to the nation’s aviation systems.

In a post on X — another of Musk’s companies — Duffy said a team from SpaceX will “get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system.”

Duffy added that the task of revamping the system will require “the brightest minds in America” that may include “any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country.” President Donald Trump previously said he envisioned two or three companies overseeing the infrastructure, instead of the dozens that have been incorporated over the years working together to keep various systems afloat, and had tasked Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team to get to the bottom of it.

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