Comment The claim is that it was a router problem (Score 1) 4
CBS reports that:
an L3Harris contractor was working in a remote FAA location and switching old copper wire to fiber while replacing a router. The router that was being switched then started flooding other routers, overloading the system. There were 1,000 attempts to log on every four to five seconds, he said.
The network DDoS'ed itself.
If the system is designed so that a couple of routers in one spot can make it necessary to ground everything, the design is bad. Saying they need $50B stat is wild when it clearly wasn't done right the first time with however much was spent so far.