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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding use of an
$875 million AI tool, SMART,
to “assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system,”
Ars Technica reported on Thursday
—but the agency says that the route-management software will not affect air safety.
The FAA first rolled out the Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) system for Washington, D.C., airspace in September and claims it has already rerouted 180 flights for average savings of 10 minutes and 80 gallons of fuel,
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The Latest: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop on flights that halted travel across the US

The Federal Aviation Administration says airplane departures can resume after the agency lifted a nationwide ground stop caused by communications problems. The FAA had grounded all flights nationwide Friday afternoon, causing hundreds of flights to be diverted. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that outages of the U.S. air traffic control system were caused by an overload of an old, analog system. The nationwide ground stop was the first since January 2023 and the second since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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