Starlink Positioned to Scavenge Vulnerable Verizon FAA Contract

Verizon’s 10-year, $2.4 billion contract to upgrade the Federal Aviation Administration’s telecommunications systems is at risk from Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts, and Musk’s SpaceX could pick up the windfall.

SpaceX, which has had $22 billion in unclassified federal contracts over more than two decades, makes the Starlink satellites that Musk wants to use at the FAA.

The future of Verizon‘s efforts to upgrade the FAA’s networks is uncertain after Bloomberg News first reported last month that the US aviation regulator had separately begun testing the use of SpaceX’s Starlink as part of the ...