2026年11月15日 美国东部时间上午10:49 / CBS新闻
华盛顿——交通部长肖恩·达菲于周日表示，在周五因路由器过载导致的电信中断促使美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）下令实施罕见的全国性停飞后，“我们必须淘汰老旧的网络和电信系统”。
“数十年来，FAA的这项工作一直没有推进。之所以迟迟不动，是因为这件事难度很大，”达菲在《玛格丽特·布伦南主持的面向全国》节目中说道。
此次停飞导致数千个航班取消、旅客滞留，在周末伊始的美国机场引发混乱。官员表示，FAA的电信承包商L3哈里斯技术公司当时在一个偏远设施内进行维护更新，目的是将老化的铜制通信线路更换为光纤连接。而在切换路由器的过程中，该路由器开始向其他路由器发送大量冗余数据，导致系统过载。
达菲表示，FAA正在调查两处异常情况：一处是在阿肯色州埃尔多拉多安装设备时启动了数据广播，另一处是得克萨斯州阿马里洛的一处设施——该设施的相关工作早在数周前就已完成。他表示，FAA与运营并拥有该网络的L3哈里斯公司正在现场开展调查，联邦调查局也已提供支援。
“我们目前正在调查当中，一旦查明此次事件的根本原因——是L3哈里斯公司的安装问题，还是路由器本身的问题——我会向你们和美国民众公布调查结果，”他说道。
达菲表示，埃尔多拉多的电信线路中，有一条老旧铜线已经无法使用。他说：“我们受电信运营商所迫，必须把这条铜线换成光纤，于是我们调来了自己的路由器进行安装。就是在那个时候，我们的网络开始出现数据泛滥的情况。”
“所以这只是我们对这套老旧电信网络架构进行维护的一部分工作，”达菲表示。
这位交通部长称，此次相关工作“操作得当”，这类作业已开展过数千次，“以前从未发生过这种情况”。他解释说，通常情况下，这类大型设施的维护工作会在夜间进行，但偏远地点的工作可以在白天开展，“因为从历史经验来看，这类工作的风险极低”。
“显然，周五的情况完全不同——我们的网络出现了数据泛滥，不得不采取停飞这一非常措施，”他说道。
达菲强调，网络升级是必要的，应“彻底重建”系统，同时指出“全球其他机构和企业，不仅是美国，世界各地的都是，都已转向数字化和光纤网络”。
这位交通部长表示，已有超过70%的铜线线路成功转为光纤线路“未出现任何问题”，相关项目包括近470个无线电设备的转换，以及全新电子飞行 strips（此处原文为electronic flight strips，航空领域通常译为“电子飞行条”）和空管塔台的建设。
周五，达菲表示FAA需要从国会获得500亿美元用于改造电信网络。周日，达菲再次提出这一请求，他称尽管FAA已获得国会在“一大宏伟法案”下分配的资金，但国会“对资金的使用方式有明确规定”。
“他们明确规定了我如何使用这笔资金，我已经全部落实，准备在总统任期结束前投入使用，”达菲说道。“但我没有资金建设新的电信系统。我没有资金开发新软件。这些都是基础设施的关键组成部分，而且历史上一直投入不足。”
达菲表示，他“正在向美国民众和国会说明情况——FAA正在首次动用你们缴纳的税款进行实际建设。让我继续推进这项工作。让我们完成这项任务，别让周五的情况重演——绝不能让悲剧再次发生。”
特朗普总统也在周日发表了意见，敦促国会批准这项资金。
“我们现行的空中交通控制系统已使用50年——太荒谬了！”他在Truth Social平台的一篇帖子中写道。“我们已经开始相关工作，但这项工作必须一次性完成，而不是断断续续地推进。国会必须批准这笔资金。”
对于周五停飞带来的持续影响，达菲表示：“目前空域还有一些延误，但随着我们推进至今日剩余时段以及明日，我们应该能恢复满负荷运行。”
达菲表示，由于停飞导致飞机和机组人员位置变动，“航空公司需要一点时间才能让运力恢复正常，重新协调好各项安排，实现满负荷运营。”
“但我们正在朝着正确方向推进，”他说道。
Ground stop proves “we have to get off old network,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says
November 15, 2026 / 10:49 AM EST / CBS News
Washington — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that “we have to get off old network, old telecom” after a telecommunication outage that officials said stemmed from overloaded routers prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to order a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday.
“For decades, this work in the FAA has not been done. It hasn’t been done because it’s hard,” Duffy said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
The ground stop resulted in thousands of canceled flights and stranded travelers, creating chaos in the nation’s airports at the start of the weekend. Officials said that FAA telecommunications contractor L3Harris Technologies had performed maintenance updates at a remote facility to replace aging copper communications lines with fiber optic connections. And as the router was being switched, it started flooding other routers and overloaded the system.
Duffy said the FAA is looking into why, when it conducted the installation in El Dorado, Arkansas, it started to broadcast data, but also why a second issue occurred at a facility in Amarillo, Texas, where work had been conducted weeks earlier. He said along with L3Harris, which operates and owns the network, the FAA is on site and the FBI is offering support.
“We’re looking at that right now, and when we know what the root cause of this issue was — was it the install from L3Harris, was it the router — I’m going to tell you and the American people what we find,” he said.
Duffy said for the telecom in El Dorado, it was an old copper wire that had become unusable. He said, “We were forced by the telecom provider to actually update that copper to fiber, and we brought in our routers and did the work. And that’s when we saw the flooding of the network.”
“So this is part of our maintenance that we do on this really old architecture of a telecom network,” Duffy said.
The transportation secretary said the work was done “appropriately,” noting that it’s been done thousands of times and “this has never happened.” He explained that normally, work is done on big facilities overnight. But for remote locations, that work can be conducted during the day, “Because the risk, historically, has been very low.”
“Obviously, on Friday we saw no; it flooded our network, and we had to take the extraordinary step of issuing a ground stop,” he said.
Duffy stressed that upgrades are necessary, saying the system should be “built brand new,” while noting that “the rest of the world — every institution, every company, not just in the U.S. but around the world — they’ve all switched over to digital and fiber.”
The transportation secretary said over 70% of copper lines have been switched over to fiber “without incident,” pointing to almost 470 radios having been switched over and new electronic flight strips and towers.
On Friday, Duffy said the FAA needs $50 billion from Congress to overhaul the telecom network. On Sunday, Duffy reiterated his pitch, saying that although the FAA received funds when Congress allocated money under the One Big Beautiful Bill, Congress was “very specific in how we spend it.”
“They specifically said how I spend the money, and I’ve and I’ve got it all spent, ready to be deployed by the end of the president’s tenure in office,” Duffy said. “But what I don’t have money for is a new telecom system. I don’t have money for new software. Those are critical pieces to the infrastructure, and it’s been historically underinvested in.”
Duffy said he is “making the case to the American people and the Congress — for the first time, the FAA is taking your money, and we’re actually building with your money. Let me continue. Let’s finish the job, let’s not see what happened on Friday — let’s not let it happen again.”
President Trump also weighed in on Sunday, urging Congress to approve the funding.
“Much of our current air control system is 50 years old – RIDICULOUS!” he said in a post on Truth Social. “We have already started the work, but it should be done all at once, not in drips and drabs. Congress must approve.”
As for the continued impacts of Friday’s ground stop, Duffy said, “We have some delays in the airspace right now, but as we look to the end of the day and into tomorrow, we should be running at full capacity.”
Duffy said with airplanes and crews out of position due to the ground stop, “it takes a little bit of time for the airlines to get back and choreographed and at full capacity and operations.”
“But we’re well on our way,” he said.
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