交通部表示，希望获得500亿美元资金，用于更换导致周五停飞的老化技术设备。周五晚间，在一次新闻发布会上，国土安全部长马克韦恩·马林和交通部长肖恩·达菲称，美国拥有“老旧交换机、老旧路由器”，这些设备因数据过载而失效，导致多个航路管制中心通信中断。
The Department of Transportation says it wants $50 billion to replace aging technology that led to Friday's ground stop. In a press conference on Friday evening, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the US has "old switches, old routers" that became overloaded with data and failed, disrupting communications at multiple air-route traffic-control centers.
达菲说：“我们应该跟我们的参议员和众议员说，‘我们不该遭遇这种事，美国。’这是最伟大的国家——顺便说一句，拥有最伟大的总统——让我们拨款解决这个非常现实的问题。”达菲补充道：“这种事还要发生多少次，国会才肯拨款解决？”
"We should talk to our senators and our members of Congress to say 'we don't deserve this, America,'" Duffy said. "This is the greatest country — by the way, with the greatest president — let's give the money to fix this very real problem." "How many times does this have to happen before Congress gives the money to fix it?" Duffy added.
在发布会上，达菲多次表示，政府需要500亿美元来更换自20世纪80年代以来一直沿用的硬件和软件。他还称，该系统已无法处理流经其中的数据量。
During the press conference, Duffy repeatedly said the administration needs $50 billion to replace the hardware and software that has been around since the 1980s. He added that the system can no longer handle the volume of data moving through it. "We need one complete system.
马林说：“我们需要一套完整的系统。我们需要有人进来构建整个系统。拼拼凑凑、零敲碎打地搞——行不通。这就是那样做的后果。”
We need someone to come in and build the whole system. Doing it — nickel-and-diming it together — does not work. This is what happens when that takes place," Mullin said.
周五，联邦航空管理局作为安全预防措施，暂停了全美范围内的起飞，已在空中的飞机继续飞往目的地或根据需要改道。周五晚间美东时间8点15分左右，停飞令解除，但此次中断导致航空公司忙于调度飞机和机组人员。据《商业内幕》统计，约有1万架次航班延误，近5000架次取消。
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration halted departures across the US as a safety precaution, while aircraft already in the air continued toward their destinations or were diverted as needed. The ground stop was lifted around 8:15 pm ET on Friday, but the disruption left airlines scrambling to reposition planes and crews. Roughly 10,000 flights were delayed and nearly 5,000 canceled, according to Business Insider's count.
官员们表示，目前未发现证据表明此次故障是由网络攻击或与人工智能相关的系统故障引起的，但补充称仍在调查停运的确切原因。
The officials said they have seen no evidence that the failure was caused by a cyberattack or system failures linked to artificial intelligence, but added that they are still investigating the precise cause of the outage.