Musk’s cost-cutters target US aviation system
Sam Ogozalek, Chris Marquette and Oriana Pawlyk
Wed, February 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM MST6 min read
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Elon Musk has pledged to deploy his "DOGE" cost-cutting squad inside the innards of America's air traffic control system, promising Wednesday to "make rapid safety upgrades" to the complex web of software, hardware, facilities and people that keep planes from crashing into each other.
"With the support of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system," Musk posted to his social media platform X. Musk's comment came shortly after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that he'd spoken to DOGE and that the squad plans to "plug in" to the air traffic control system to help make unspecified upgrades to unknown systems.
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Maybe Elon's team will be removing the back doors that allow bad actors to alter telemetry and cause "accidents".