complex, to include a surge in air traffic, the integration of new manned and unmanned aerial and space vehicle activity, an increasingly dynamic national security environment, and the growth of extended overwater and remote location flight routes, it is imperative for air safety investigators to quickly locate a downed aircraft and survivors, and to have rapid access to secure black box data to enable and support the early identification of safety and security issues, and the quick implementation of appropriate preventative actions to address potential risks to the commercial aviation fleet. (5) Air crash victim families deserve assurances that search and rescue teams will have rapid access to a crash location’s site to speed survivor recovery efforts, and that victim families will have access to timely and factual information regarding the cause of an accident and the fate of their loved ones. (6) Hundreds of millions of dollars are unnecessarily expended, and significant time is wasted in efforts to locate and recover traditional fixed black boxes in underwater crash investigations. (7) Existing, advanced flight recorder technologies are available today that will aid in the rapid location of an aircraft and potential survivors, while also providing safety investigators with timelier recovery of FDR/CVR data by avoiding accident investigation delays caused by prolonged underwater and remote location search operations. (8) Recent commercial passenger aircraft crashes involving United States and international manufactured aircraft have demonstrated the significant challenges and unnecessary delays safety investigators face in trying to locate and recover traditional fixed black boxes from the bottom of the ocean, including the following: (A) On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, B–777–200ER, disappeared with 239 passengers and crew. International search and recovery efforts for the aircraft and black boxes have involved 29 nations and hundreds of millions of dollars in resources, becoming the most