FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

Hopefully there are others who can speak with more knowledge on this.

Isn’t one of the problems that aircraft don’t have consistent, modern transponders so that they can be reliably seen by the towers? I think that was part of the DC crash between passenger plane and helicopter, no? ATC didn’t have good visibility of the helicopter, so they told the plane and the helicopter to just watch out for each other visually.

I don’t see AI helping all that much until all aircraft are retrofitted with modern transponders.