The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering canceling a $2 billion contract with Verizon Communications (VZ) in order to upgrade
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig sharply denounced DOGE chief Elon Musk's efforts to get the Federal Aviation Administration to break its contract with Verizon and use his company SpaceX instead, calling the idea a "flagrant" conflict of interest.
The Federal Aviation Administration appears likely to drop Verizon and pick Starlink, a satellite company owned by Elon Musk, to take over a contract to modernize the country's air traffic communications system, the Associated Press reported.
At the same time, Musk has been trying to obtain a $2 billion contract now held by Verizon to run the FAA’s communications system for all U.S. air traffic.
The FAA could hand the contract to overhaul an integral U.S. air traffic control communications system to the mogul’s satellite company
Elon Musk raised ethical concerns, as he publicly blasted Verizon, a competitor to his Starlink satellite communications company under the parent company SpaceX.