The U.S. DOT has announced a series of measures to improve the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) safety inspection program and tasked a newly created independent review team with crafting recommendations to improve the air safety system. The FAA will implement a new program to track the inspections being conducted by field offices that will alert key personnel whenever a safety inspection is overdue. Senior level FAA officials at field offices will be accountable for accepting voluntary safety disclosures from airlines and to revise ethics rules to require a cooling-off period before FAA inspectors can work for an airline they used to oversee or interact while at the agency. And the FAA will establish a new National Safety Inspection Review team that will be deployed to air carriers to conduct focused and comprehensive safety reviews. The outside team of aviation and safety experts will evaluate and craft recommendations to improve the FAA’s implementation of the aviation safety system and its culture of safety.