Pete Buttigieg

And I do think there's a lot of that.

I think government gets in its own way with procedure.

I think government gets in its own way with procedure.

That was an example where we needed to invest.

That was an example where we needed to invest.

It's that tough situation in needing to swallow hard and go before Congress or the taxpayer and say, look, we need more funding for this.

It's that tough situation in needing to swallow hard and go before Congress or the taxpayer and say, look, we need more funding for this.

That's what we did.

That's what we did.

By the way, this is one of the rare areas where I agree with my successor, who's done pretty much the same thing, to make sure we got the funding to upgrade the technology.

By the way, this is one of the rare areas where I agree with my successor, who's done pretty much the same thing, to make sure we got the funding to upgrade the technology.

Now,

Now,

This is one of the few audiences that might be nerdy enough that I can geek out a little bit and talk about the big upgrade to the communications backbone that we were doing.

This is one of the few audiences that might be nerdy enough that I can geek out a little bit and talk about the big upgrade to the communications backbone that we were doing.

It was to go from TDM to IP, from copper to fiber.

It was to go from TDM to IP, from copper to fiber.

I think a lot of people would be astonished to know that something as important and theoretically modern as our aviation system is working on TDM.

I think a lot of people would be astonished to know that something as important and theoretically modern as our aviation system is working on TDM.

That obviously had to be upgraded.