WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and Federal Aviation Administrator (FAA) Bryan Bedford today unveiled the Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) - a cutting-edge tool that centralizes 200 data streams - including weather patterns, flight paths, traffic flow, and controller staffing metrics - into one platform. SMART's AI-supported engine then synthesizes all this data to provide a comprehensive visualization of where planes are going, how much traffic the system can handle, and where congestion or weather could cause challenges.

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