The Pentagon will have to provide summaries of nearly three years’ worth of internal safety investigations under the annual defense policy bill, a provision inserted to force transparency amid a rise in military aviation mishaps.
The provision, contained in a committee report attached to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, would give the Pentagon’s Joint Safety Council and the military services an April 1 deadline to give the Senate Armed Services Committee “executive summaries for Safety Investigation Boards conducted from January 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025” and “summaries of any corrective actions implemented in response to the Board’s findings.”
That timeframe would encompass high-profile incidents such as the deadly Jan. 29 collision of an Army UH-60 Black Hawk and a commercial airliner outside Washington, D.C., and several V-22 Osprey crashes that killed a total of 20 service members.
The provision was added by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
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