// THE VERGE — FINANZA
The FAA is finally ditching floppy disks
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants credit for dragging America’s air traffic control out of the 1980s, but retiring 3.5-inch floppies won’t fix a broken system running on overworked controllers and private-sector hype.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants credit for dragging America’s air traffic control out of the 1980s, but retiring 3.5-inch floppies won’t fix a broken system running on overworked controllers and private-sector hype.
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It’s the year 2026 and the Federal Aviation Administration is still running critical pieces of American airspace on 3.5-inch magnetic floppy disks.
But those technology artifacts could be headed for the dustbin after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an effort to ditch floppy disks in favor of a new digital system.
Duffy announced Thursday that the FAA is rolling out the Enterprise – Information Display System (E-IDS) to replace four legacy setups across more than 400 air traffic control facilities. E-IDS aggregates real-time weather alerts, equipment outages, restricted airspace changes, and pilot reports onto a modern digital dashboard, replacing manual workflows and archaic physical storage media.