The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is claiming some P702 million in damages from the contractor of the government’s air traffic management system.
The day after the Senate hearing, the CAAP installed five closed-circuit television cameras in the main room, which houses the equipment of the air traffic management center. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri acknowledged the CAAP’s action, and thanked them in Filipino, for “acting on our order [on Thursday] to install CCTV cameras in sensitive and critical areas.
For her part, Sen. Grace Poe told CNN Philippines the Senate may convene an executive session with the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center to explore the cyberattack angle in the air traffic management system’s shutdown. At Thursday’s hearing, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said because no vulnerabilities tests were made on the CNS/ATM system “that leaves us very open to the possibility of cyberattack.
She enjoined her peers to get to the bottom of the airspace shutdown’s issues and find solutions immediately. “We need to act decisively so that we can convince not only foreign tourists, but our own people, that they will not suffer through hell to get to experience the Philippines. We don’t want a repeat of the incident and be embarrassed. Our tourism industry is targeting 4.8 million international visitors for this year.
Tamayo told lawmakers that procurement for the CNS/ATM project commenced in 2009, but the project was completed and turned over to the CAAP only on October 16, 2017. The Commission on Audit disallowed the P59-million advance payment under phase 1 of the project in May 2011, and only cleared it two years later. Construction of the project resumed in August 2013.
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