'State of the art' air traffic control system will be unveiled in the 'next couple days,' Duffy says

"We're going to have an announcement in the next couple days. We are going to have a brand new system. Again, our system is 25, 30 years old. We use copper wires, floppy disks. I mean... it's atrocious, the system we use," Duffy said. "It's safe, but we're seeing the cracks of age. So we're going to build a brand new state of the art system." 

Duffy said the key to upgrading the nation's air traffic control system is "speed." 

"It's not that we don't know that we've had a problem with air traffic control, but it takes too long. And then technology changes, money changes, administrations change. So we have to do this really fast. And so the Congress has to give us all the money up front," he told "Fox & Friends." 

"We have some SpaceX engineers that are helping us and others, to help us deploy -- again this fantastic system," he also said. "And so we're going to roll our plan out. Again, I'm talking to the president this week. Give him the first sneak peek, and then we're going to roll it out to Congress and hopefully get the money quick." 

Duffy previously said upgrading the system could take up to four years to complete.