FAA officials reported April 21, 2025, that the agency is accelerating the modernization of its NOTAM system.
The new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) system will be deployed this year, “much earlier than originally planned,” according to FAA officials, who added that more than 4 million NOTAMs are issued annually.
A major NOTAM system outage in January 2023 highlighted the fragility of the system and the need to speed up the modernization, FAA officials added.
“The Notice to Airmen system is deeply outdated and showing serious cracks,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “Over the last few years, we’ve seen multiple system outages ground regional air travel, create extensive delays, and otherwise ruin the flying experience for the American people. It’s time our technology enters the 21st Century. NOTAM modernization is the first step as we work to deliver an all-new air traffic control system that makes air travel safer and more efficient.”
“The modernization will provide near-real-time data exchange, enabling efficient dataflows and better stakeholder collaboration,” FAA officials explained. “The system will be securely hosted in the cloud, and it will have a scalable and resilient architecture.”
According to FAA officials, the agency used “a streamlined, innovative vendor challenge to cut through red tape to get this critical work done as fast as possible.”
The FAA selected CGI Federal to work on modernizing the NOTAM system and deploying the service.
CGI is currently on an accelerated schedule to deliver the NOTAM modernization by July 2025, and the FAA is targeting deployment of the new system by September 2025.