Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
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Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
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> While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to steal a multibillion-dollar government contract from Verizon.
>The Federal Aviation Administration is on the cusp of canceling a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the communication system for the nation’s air traffic control system and handing it to the SpaceX subsidiary instead, The Washington Post reports, citing two unnamed sources briefed on the plans. The news was also confirmed by Bloomberg and The Associated Press.
We are so cooked it’s not even remotely funny anymore
I show stuff like this to my conservative friends to show he’s just there to enrich himself and they don’t care. He’s their billionaire so it doesn’t count. If it was George Soros they would be planning Jan 6th 2.0 right now.
Does this mean their voice chat is gonna go to a satellite and back? Imagine the lag.
Can’t wait for insurers of foreign airlines to hike their plans massively and pass them onto consumers because of this reckless bullshit.
Complete out-in-the-open corruption.
Muskrat belongs in prison.
And here i thought there was no way flying could possibly get worse.
Never flying into America
Tbh aside from the absolute shameless grift on a technical level this sounds fine no?
I’d imagine Verizon sues here. They totally got shafted on a deal they already had.