The FAA air traffic controllers and managers routinely provide
airspace security, sometimes for hours on end, at locations across the
country as the FBI or State and local law enforcement perform
classified missions using government aircraft. In some cases, not even
other aircraft know about those missions or what it is that they are
conducting, depending upon the sensitivity of what it is that they are
doing or is being performed. U.S. air traffic controllers, government employees, and managers also
participate in drug interdiction operations with the Drug Enforcement
Administration as well as Customs and Border Protection. This might
involve providing intercept vectors due to drug aircraft, drug lords
trying to sneak things in or whatever it might be, and that has to
alter flight plans and do very complicated things. It might also involve protecting the airspace for drone operations.
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