The Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Jennifer Homendy, has described proposed legislation that would reduce safety in the skies of Washington DC as “shameful”.

On December 10, 2025, Homendy held a combatant press conference and wrote to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to vehemently oppose sections of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would allow military aircraft to operate without ADS-B.

ADS-B is an advanced surveillance technology that provides an aircraft’s location to air traffic control and other aircraft pilots.
In Homendy’s letter she wrote that provisions in the NDAA would “roll back broadcast requirements to the very conditions that existed at the time of the [PSA Airlines-Black Hawk] accident”.

Following the fatal accident in January 2025 when a PSA Airlines regional jet collided with a US Black Hawk the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation entered into an agreement requiring military aircraft within the DC airspace to broadcast their positions ADS-B Out.