The Trump administration is bringing the nation’s aviation system into the digital age, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announcing on Tuesday long-delayed upgrades at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and outlining plans to fix Washington Dulles International Airport .

Duffy said during President Donald Trump’s ninth Cabinet meeting that the agency fast-tracked the FAA’s shift from copper to fiber infrastructure and committed to buying new radios and radars.

“Many of you have heard that we have an infrastructure made of copper. We have to transition to fiber. The last administration said it was going to take more than 10 years to complete the transition from copper to fiber. They had no plan to actually do it,” Duffy said, adding that the current administration has a

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