Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
Officially: “Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025” Read the full text
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1Short title
This section would give the Act the short title "Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025 .
2Integrity of aerospace parts documentation
This section would direct the Comptroller General of the United States to study the obstacles to using digital documentation and verification in the aviation supply chain, to help identify falsified documentation and counterfeit parts. In conducting the study, the Comptroller General would have to evaluate the challenges faced by manufacturers, repair stations, air carriers, aircraft lessors, aircraft brokers, parts brokers, and other supply chain participants in adopting digital authorized release certificates, including FAA Form 8130-3; the challenges the aviation industry faces in using digital verification and authentication tools; the challenges of establishing standardized documentation across the aviation industry; and the challenges of transitioning the Federal Aviation Administration from legacy paper-based records to digital documentation and from physical to digital signatures. Not later than 1 year after the Act is enacted, the Comptroller General would have to submit a report on the results of the study to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. That report would have to include recommendations on ways to encourage every organization in the aviation industry, regardless of its size, to adopt digital forms and authentication tools; recommendations on how to speed up the Federal Aviation Administration's adoption of digital documentation; and any other recommendations the Comptroller General considers appropriate. Not later than 120 days after the report is submitted, the Secretary of Transportation would have to respond to any recommendations in the report that are directed at the Department of Transportation or any of its offices.
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2. Integrity of aerospace parts documentation (a) Study The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the impediments to the use of digital documentation and verification in the aviation supply chain to aid in identifying falsified documentation and counterfeit parts. (b) Contents In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall evaluate the challenges of— (1) manufacturers, repairs stations, air carriers, aircraft lessors, aircraft brokers, parts brokers, and other supply chain participants to adopting the use of digital authorized release certificates, including FAA Form 8130–3; (2) the aviation industry in utilizing digital verification and authentication tools; (3) establishing standardized documentation in the aviation industry; and (4) transitioning the Federal Aviation Administration from— (A) legacy paper-based records to digital documentation; and (B) physical to digital signatures. (c) Report (1) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing the results of the study conducted under subsection (a). (2) Recommendations The Comptroller General shall include in the report submitted under paragraph (1)— (A) recommendations on— (i) ways to encourage each organization in the aviation industry, regardless of the size of such organization, to adopt the use of digital forms and authentication tools; and (ii) how to accelerate the adoption of digital documentation by the Federal Aviation Administration; and (B) any other recommendations the Comptroller General determines appropriate. (d) Response of Secretary of Transportation Not later than 120 days after submission of the report required under paragraph (c), the Secretary of Transportation shall respond to any recommendations in such report directed to the Department of Transportation or any office of the Department.
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In the House.