Sorry, Verizon, this completely normal and not-at-all ethically-unusual business decision unexpectedly favors Elon Musk.
The Washington Post is reporting that the FAA is close to canceling a major contract with Verizon to upgrade the agency’s air traffic control system and award the work to Elon Musk’s company, Starlink.
Elon Musk said Thursday that Verizon’s efforts to provide a critically needed upgrade to the FAA’s air traffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that Starlink, a unit of his SpaceX satellite and rocket company,
WASHINGTON - Billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk on Thursday falsely accused Verizon, a rival contractor of his SpaceX Starlink system, of putting U.S. air safety at risk through a communications system that is actually operated by L3Harris.
Billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk on Thursday falsely accused Verizon, a rival contractor of his SpaceX Starlink system, of putting U.S. air safety at risk through a communications system that is actually operated by L3Harris.
WASHINGTON >> Billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk today falsely accused Verizon, a rival contractor of his SpaceX Starlink system, of putting U.S. air safety at risk through a communications system that is actually operated by L3Harris.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk redirected his criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging system to L3Harris Thursday, after discovering that Verizon was not the company behind the software.
The billionaire simply can’t stop racking up conflicts of interest, with officials at the FAA now reportedly looking for tens of millions of dollars to strike a deal with Starlink.
The use of Starlink has been adopted by at least one additional federal agency since Donald Trump began his second presidential term.
DOGE, filled with SpaceX employees, should not undercut Verizon in favor of Starlink to fix the FAA’s antiquated systems.
The sticker-shock warning came amid the unveiling of a new plan by the Trump administration to alleviate egg prices, which included investing another $1 billion in helping American farms tighten up biosecurity to keep the avian flu out of their broods and outsourcing up to 100 million eggs from other countries to feed the American market.