Musk’s DOGE Will Upgrade US Air Traffic Control System, Says Transportation Secretary

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Feb. 5 that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team at the U.S. DOGE Service would soon hone in on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic control system. “Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” Duffy wrote in a post on the social media platform X. Duffy did not explain how Musk would be upgrading the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) aviation system. The agency did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. Shortly before his post, Duffy spoke at a conference of state transportation department officials about his plans for the FAA. He mentioned speaking with Musk on Feb. 4 and called the SpaceX and Tesla CEO a “pretty remarkable guy” who has “access to the best technological people, the best engineers in the world.”...