Running Your Supply Chain On Floppy Disks?
What’s happening at Newark International Airport and with air traffic control systems is another wakeup call to address your technical debt problem.
I’ve never liked Newark International Airport, and it’s even lower on my list of airports today.
“Yet another equipment outage at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) caused widespread delays and a ground stop over the weekend,” writes Naveen Dhaliwal at CBS News this morning. “The Federal Aviation Administration said the third outage in less than two weeks [emphasis mine] happened Sunday morning after a backup air traffic control system momentarily failed.”
What’s behind these system failures?
The main culprit is the severely outdated IT systems used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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