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Update on yesterday’s FAA ground stop. We now know what happened, and it’s worse than “old equipment.” It wasn’t a cyberattack and it wasn’t SMART. The FAA says there’s zero evidence of either. Here’s what happened. L3Harris crews were replacing an end-of-life copper line with fiber at one remote FAA site. A router involved in that work started flooding the network with more than 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds. Radar feeds and radio links to aircraft became unstable. After about 45 minutes of nobody knowing why, the FAA grounded the entire country. Once they isolated that one remote site, everything came back. So let me get this straight. One router at one site took down air traffic control for all 50 states. The FAA has now disabled the faulty function on roughly 60 routers of the same type nationwide. It still doesn’t know whether the router was defective or whether it was installed or configured wrong. Oh, and this has happened before. In 2009, a Harris technician misconfigured a router while moving the same network to fiber and disrupted 129 air traffic facilities. Same contractor, same migration, same failure mode, 17 years apart. This is exactly the point from my last post. Legacy modernization doesn’t fail because of the shiny new system. It fails at the seams, in the routine change nobody thought could take down the whole country. Good change management means one site can’t flood the network, isolation happens in minutes instead of hours, and nobody runs a copper-to-fiber cutover on critical infrastructure without a tested rollback and a hard limit on how far a failure can spread. None of that is new. We learned it in 2009. The question is why we had to learn it again. Tech is so fun...

So let me get this straight. 2021: Biden's infrastructure law puts $5B into FAA air traffic control facilities. That means towers and buildings. It doesn't replace the decades-old copper-and-switches network that connects them. 2023: The FAA hires Verizon for $2.4B to build that replacement network. Two years later it still isn't running. Project 2025 calls for spinning air traffic control out of the FAA and privatizing it if possible. 2025: DOGE fires about 400 FAA staff, including maintenance mechanics at 18 air traffic control facilities that were already short on technicians. Musk pushes Starlink to replace Verizon. Newark's radar and radios keep going dark because of old copper wire and untested telecom links. Congress puts $12.5B toward the fix and calls it a down payment. June 2026: Air Space Intelligence wins a 12-year FAA contract worth up to $875.9M to build SMART, an AI air traffic management system. Months earlier, ASI's PAC donated to the campaign of Duffy's son-in-law. The award was competitive. ASI's Air Force deal was sole-source. November 10: SMART goes live at all 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers, about 50 days after its first launch over Washington. The controllers' union says it wasn't involved in the rollout. November 13: An update hits the private network that links every center. The network reboots and crashes, the old equipment chokes, and controllers get bad data. The result is the third nationwide ground stop in US history: more than four hours, nearly 8,000 cancellations and 10,000+ delays. Officials blame old equipment. ASI and Duffy say SMART had nothing to do with it. DHS says it can't rule anything out. Nobody has said what the update was or who approved it. And an earlier review had already warned that this network was no longer supported and that one failure could cut off an entire region. Anyone who has shipped software into legacy infrastructure knows the appropriate playbook: ⭐️ Map every dependency. ⭐️ Test against real failure modes. ⭐️ Run old and new in parallel. ⭐️ Roll out in stages. ⭐️ Change one major thing at a time. ⭐️ Keep a rollback you've actually tested. ⭐️ Keep the operators in the room. I suspect a lot of newer engineers raised on vibecoding have never learned this. Prompting gets something new on screen fast, but it won't teach you how a decades-old network reacts to an update at 4pm on a Friday. Speed is not the metric. In aviation, reliability and accountability have to be built in from day one. Bring back the adults in the room.

The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC.

GEN YON GWO DEZAKÒ ANT EL SALVADOR AK DEPATMAN DETA AMERIKEN SOU OPERASYON KONT GANG AN AYITI! Jounalis Marc Caputo pibliye yon ankèt sou Axios ki revele gwo tansyon diplomatik ant gouvènman El Salvador ak kèk responsab nan Depatman Deta ameriken an, konsènan operasyon militè prezidan Nayib Bukele ap mennen ann Ayiti. Selon Axios, nan dat 27 oktòb, Bukele te jwenn benediksyon prezidan ameriken Donald Trump pou l mennen operasyon kont gang yo. Se konsa fòs espesyal El Salvador yo te kòmanse mennen operasyon militè ki lakòz echanj kout zam ak gang yo nan zòn Laplèn. Nan dat 31 oktòb, gang yo te atake yon konvwa militè salvadoryen toupre Anbasad Etazini ann Ayiti. Pandan echanj kout zam sa yo, lokal anbasad ameriken an te resevwa bal. Apre sa, nan dat 3 novanm, elikoptè militè El Salvador yo te entèvni pou repouse yon atak gang kont sòlda peyi Tchad ki fè pati fòs entènasyonal GSF la. Nan dat 4 novanm, David Howell, ki se pi gwo diplomat ameriken ann Ayiti, te voye yon mesaj bay Premye Minis Alix Didier Fils-Aimé pou l plenyen sou fason militè El Salvador yo ap opere. Dapre mesaj Axios jwenn nan, Howell fè konnen militè salvadoryen yo pa byen kowòdone operasyon yo ak GSF la. Li avanse tou twa militè salvadoryen ta blese, yo pa gen yon bon plan pou evakyasyon medikal, epi yo prèske tire sou sòlda GSF yo. Li mande Premye Minis ayisyen an pou l fè otorite militè El Salvador yo sispann operasyon yo jiskaske gen yon pi bon kowòdinasyon. Nan dat 5 novanm, Anbasad Etazini nan El Salvador voye yon nòt diplomatik ofisyèl bay gouvènman Bukele a. Nan nòt sa a, Ameriken yo fè konnen mank kowòdinasyon militè salvadoryen yo mete lòt fòs yo an danje. Yo akize sòlda El Salvador yo tou dèske bal yo tire ta frape Anbasad Etazini an Ayiti, kote pèsonèl ameriken te manke pran bal. Men gouvènman Bukele a pa dakò ditou ak akizasyon sa yo! Lendi 9 novanm, El Salvador reponn ak pwòp nòt diplomatik pa li. Li rejte akizasyon yo youn apre lòt. Li demanti se sòlda pa li ki te tire sou anbasad ameriken an. Li demanti tou militè li yo te tire nan direksyon sòlda Tchad yo. Li fè konnen operasyon ayeryen li yo te deja ap kowòdone ak GSF ansanm ak otorite ayisyen yo depi 26 oktòb. Finalman, li rejte enfòmasyon ki fè kwè twa sòlda salvadoryen te blese. Men El Salvador ale pi lwen toujou! Li deklare lè yon responsab ap pataje enfòmasyon ki pa vre sou yon dosye grav konsa, san li pa prezante prèv, sa mete kredibilite tout lòt deklarasyon responsab sa a an dout. Sa vle di gouvènman Bukele a rive mete kredibilite pi gwo diplomat ameriken an Ayiti a an kesyon. Depatman Deta ameriken an, bò kote pa li, kontinye soutni twa militè salvadoryen te blese, epi youn te bezwen kite Ayiti pou resevwa swen. Pou kounye a, de pati yo kontinye bay vèsyon ki diferan sou sa ki pase pandan operasyon yo. Yon bagay ki enpòtan pou nou konprann: dezakò sa a pa nesesèman vle di Trump ak Bukele pa antann yo ankò. Sa ki nan mitan konfli a, se fason operasyon militè yo ap kowòdone sou teren an. Sous: Axios — Marc Caputo, « Scoop: El Salvador blasts U.S. State Dept. over Haiti gang war », 10 novanm 2026.

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