With air traffic controllers in the news lately, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Emily Hanoka, a former controller who retired earlier this year, about the stresses and sacrifices involved in the work.

Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken. Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a ...

After the fatal collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in January, confidence in air travel safety dropped among Americans.

Air traffic controller staffing shortages worsened over the weekend as the nation’s government shutdown hit its fourth week, leading to delays and anxiety, and experts say it won’t get better until ...

Kyle Wilkerson, program coordinator for air traffic control at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, joined The ...

Last week, amid the mounting air traffic control problems at Newark Liberty International Airport, the radar screens went blank. The radios went out. And for more than a minute, air traffic ...

The danger to entire networks is an unwelcome side effect of the internet of things, which has made countless devices both ...

The communications breakdown last week that resulted in air traffic controllers losing radar and radio contact with the pilots of planes they were guiding into Newark Liberty International Airport has ...

The convergence of physical and digital security is driving a shift toward software-driven, open-architecture edge computing. Access control has typically ...