The FAA is finally ditching floppy disks

The aerial postulation power operation is seen San Diego International Airport connected May 27th successful San Diego, California. | Photo by Kevin Carter / Getty Images

It's the twelvemonth 2026 and the Federal Aviation Administration is inactive moving captious pieces of American airspace connected 3.5-inch magnetic floppy disks.

But those exertion artifacts could beryllium headed for the dustbin aft Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an effort to ditch floppy disks successful favour of a caller integer system.

Duffy announced Thursday that the FAA is rolling retired the Enterprise - Information Display System (E-IDS) to regenerate 4 bequest setups crossed much than 400 aerial postulation power facilities. E-IDS aggregates real-time upwind alerts, instrumentality outages, restricted airspace changes, and aviator reports onto a modern digit …

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