US Transportation Secretary probes L3Harris over FAA radar outage

The significance here is less about the outage itself than about accountability for critical infrastructure vendors: a cabinet-level investigation into a single contractor signals that system reliability at the FAA is becoming a political and procurement issue, not just an operational one. It affects L3Harris directly, but also the broader set of defense and aerospace suppliers whose reputations rest on uptime guarantees. Duffy explicitly said the cause is undetermined, so the open question is whether the probe attributes fault to the contractor's equipment or to the site's configuration and maintenance process.