The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified the contractor involved in the outage of a safety bulletin system that caused a stop in passenger air travel nationwide.
The agency announced on January 26, that it would directly ban contract personnel involved in the incident from accessing its buildings and systems during the investigation, reported Reuters.
Federal investigators identified Bethesda-based Spatial Front as the contractor behind the mass grounding of over 11,000 flights that occurred on January 11. The announcement came one day after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a new report over its investigation into the termination of hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights during the holidays that left more than 1 million passengers stranded at airports across the country….