Everything listed in the article is actually already used by the FAA. Paper strips went away about 10 years ago in ATC centers and more recently in towers [0].

Everything listed in the article is actually already used by the FAA. Paper strips went away about 10 years ago in ATC centers and more recently in towers [0]. FAA has ADS-B for satellite-based navigation over Alaska and is deploying it elsewhere (notably oceanic regions) [1][2]. Digital communication ("text messaging") is coming to towers [3] and variants of it have existed for years in control centers for certain aircraft. Check out https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/ https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/ for lots of info on their improvement efforts. None of this is to say the FAA is perfect--it's not, but it's definitely improving and they have an immensely difficult problem to manage. The FAA handles a much larger traffic volume than Canada, including many of the most congested regions in the world. (Planes are not evenly distributed!) The Advanced Automation System was the wrong approach, trying to overhaul the entire system at once, and NextGen is successfully taking the incremental approach. [0] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=37 https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=37 [1] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/ https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/ [2] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=26 https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=26 [3] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/update/progress_and_plans/data_comm/ https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/update/progress_and_plans/data_c...