Subject: Re: The second American revolution
Lastly, something does not seem quite right with the Verizon deal made in 2023, yet somehow, in less than two years, the Verizon solution is already antiquated.

https://www.verizon.com/about/...

This was the original deal:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Verizon Public Sector today announced a 15-year critical infrastructure contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worth over $2 billion to design, build, operate and maintain the FAA’s next-generation communications platform.

Under the terms of the Federal Aviation Administration Enterprise Network Services (FENS) contract, Verizon will build the FAA a dynamic, highly available and secure enterprise network to support all of the agency's mission critical applications across the National Airspace System (NAS), which includes providing Air Traffic Management (ATM) to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers traveling across the more than 29 million square miles that make up the U.S. national airspace system.

Without agreeing with the libs, I will say that your point about how weird it is that it's old already is interesting. Also, we have no idea of the system requirements in play here - it would be more than just network bandwidth and availability; there's also an element of security at play.