Following a nation-wide grounding of air travel - that extended into Canada - due to a system failure of the 30-year old NOTAM, or Notice to Air Missions system in the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. has announced it’s taking action.
As CNN reports, in a letter to Congress, which had demanded accountability, the FAA has announced it is replacing the outdated NOTAM system by “mid-2025.”
In addition, following reports that a contract worker had inadvertently deleted a file, causing JAN’s meltdown, the FAA says two people - including one FAA employee, must be present during all maintenance. Back up and synchronization policy changes have also been made. The FAA also repeated that it had found “no evidence of a cyber-attack” causing the failure, which had been speculated.
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