portation Security Administration from using the bag-
match program as a supplemental means of securing 
checked baggage. 
SEC. 6. AVIATION SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES. 
(a) REPORT.—As part of the Department of Home-
land Security’s budget request for fiscal year 2006, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall transmit to Con-
gress a report on—
(1) the status and technical maturity of avia-
tion security technologies (including technologies for 
detecting explosive, chemical, biological, or radio-
logical materials on or in passengers, carry-on or 
checked baggage, or air cargo, improving resolution 
and readability of x-ray-based baggage screening 
systems, integrating the threat imaging projection 
system into checked baggage detection systems, and 
site access security for airport facilities); 
(2) the planned schedule for deployment of such 
technologies; 
(3) the expected costs for development, testing, 
evaluation, procurement, and installation, and pro-
jected annual costs for operation and maintenance, 
of such technologies; 
(4) potential deployment problems in an airport 
setting; and
(5) the advisability of deploying security tech-
nologies to airports in a manner that maximizes the 
number of technologies that Federal and airport se-
curity personnel can effectively operate. 
(b) TECHNOLOGY SPECIFICATIONS
AND CERTIFI-
CATION.—Not later than 6 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the head 
of the Transportation Security Administration, the Under 
Secretary for Science and Technology, and the Under Sec-
retary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protec-
tion, shall—
(1) issue updated technical specifications gov-
erning the use of explosive detection systems for 
baggage screening based on the most recent assess-
ment of terrorist capabilities, potential impacts upon 
aircraft and passengers of the use of various weap-
ons or dangerous materials, and the state of explo-
sive detection technology; 
(2) determine the compliance with such speci-
fications of currently deployed baggage screening 
equipment; 
(3) use such specifications for future certifi-
cation of new technologies for use in baggage screen-
ing; and
(4) issue technical specifications governing the 
use of technology for screening air cargo if the Sec-
retary determines that explosive detection tech-
nologies under paragraph (1) for passenger and bag-
gage screening do not meet the needs for screening 
air cargo in accordance with the system established 
under section 404 of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002. 
SEC. 7. INSPECTION OF CARGO CARRIED ABOARD PAS-
SENGER AIRCRAFT. 
Subtitle A of title IV of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 201–203) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 404. AIR CARGO ON PASSENGER AIRCRAFT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
establish and begin to implement a system to screen or 
inspect all cargo that is to be transported in passenger 
aircraft operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier 
in air transportation or intrastate air transportation (as 
such terms are defined in section 40102 of title 49, United 
States Code). The system shall require the use of equip-
ment, technology, and personnel to screen and inspect 
cargo that meet the same standards as those established
by the Secretary for equipment, technology, and personnel 
used to screen passenger baggage. 
‘‘(b) REPORT.—Not later than 210 days after the 
date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
transmit to Congress a report describing the system under 
subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 8. DATABASE ON KNOWN SHIPPING COMPANIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than April 1, 2005, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall complete, and make 
available as appropriate to personnel of the Transpor-
tation Security Administration, freight forwarders, airport 
authorities, air carriers, and other relevant entities a data-
base containing the names and other relevant information 
of all known shipping companies. In making such database 
available to nongovernmental entities, the Secretary shall 
ensure that sensitive security information and company 
proprietary information is adequately protected. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than the 30th day following 
the date of the completion of the database under sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a re-
port on the number of known shipping companies in the 
database, the number of known shipping companies for
whom the Administration has conducted physical inspec-
tions of facilities and paperwork of such companies to de-
termine compliance with security regulations that apply to 
those companies, the number of companies that have ap-
plied to the Secretary for known shipping company status 
and been denied, and the number of known shipping com-
panies that have been removed from the database as a 
result of findings by the Administration that such compa-
nies have failed to comply with appropriate security regu-
lations 
SEC. 9. TRAINING PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of deploying 
Federal law enforcement officers not part of the Federal 
Air Marshal Service as alternative security personnel on 
commercial aircraft—
(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, not 
later than the 90th day following the date of enact-
ment of this Act, shall establish training standards 
that all Federal law enforcement officers must meet 
in order to serve as Federal air marshals; and 
(2) the head of the Federal Air Marshal Serv-
ice, in determining on which flights to place one or 
more Federal air marshals, shall—
(A) have access to information on whether 
Federal law enforcement officials meeting the
training standards established under paragraph 
(1) are scheduled to travel on commercial 
flights; and 
(B) not substitute Federal law enforcement 
officials that have not met such training stand-
ards for Federal air marshal personnel. 
(b) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive the require-
ment of subsection (a)(2)(B) for not to exceed 6 months 
after the 90th day referred to in subsection (a) if nec-
essary for security purposes. 
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary shall transmit to Con-
gress a report on the timeline for providing training re-
quired to carry out subsection (a)(2) and any additional 
resources needed to implement this section. 
SEC. 10. COORDINATION OF AIR MARSHAL ACTIVITIES. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, shall collaborate with foreign 
governments to coordinate air marshal activities, including 
air marshal scheduling on international flights, weapons 
training, use and protocols for nonlethal weapons, threat 
recognition, communications, and other issues as deter-
mined appropriate by the Secretary.
SEC. 11. FLIGHT DECK SECURITY FOR FOREIGN AIR CAR-
RIER OVERFLIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the 90th day fol-
lowing the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall issue regulations to require 
that overflying aircraft meet or exceed the level of flight 
deck security for passenger and cargo as required under 
part 129.28 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, as 
in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘over-
flying aircraft’’ means a flight of a passenger or cargo air-
craft by a foreign air carrier that departs from and arrives 
at an airport outside the United States and enters United 
States airspace during the flight. 
SEC. 12. DAILY PREFLIGHT SEARCHES OF AIRCRAFT. 
(a) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, in conjunction with the Administrator of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration, shall issue, by October 1, 
2004, regulations governing daily preflight searches of air-
craft for foreign materials that might be used in a ter-
rorist attack. 
(b) REIMBURSEMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reim-
burse air carriers for expenses incurred, during the 
1-year period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this Act, in training air carrier personnel as nec-
essary to implement the regulations issued under 
this section. 
(2) FUNDING.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out this subsection for fiscal years 2005 and 2006. 
(c) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary shall provide guid-
ance to air carriers on removing or otherwise securing 
items commonly found on board aircraft that might be 
used in an act of terrorism. 
SEC. 13. FLIGHT CREW COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall require, to the greatest extent technically 
feasible, air carriers (as defined in section 40102 of title 
49, United States Code) to provide flight attendants with 
a discreet and wireless method of communicating with pi-
lots that meet such standards as the Secretary may estab-
lish by regulation. Such a system must be accessible by 
any Federal air marshal on a flight of an air carrier and 
appropriate Government security officials and personnel of 
the air carrier. 
(b) DEADLINE FOR REGULATIONS.—The Secretary 
shall issue regulations to carry out this section not later 
than the 90th day following the date of enactment of this 
Act.
SEC. 14. AIRPORT SITE ACCESS AND PERIMETER SECU-
RITY. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than the 90th day following 
the date of enactment of this Act, the head of the Trans-
portation Security Administration shall transmit to Con-
gress a report that addresses the Administration’s imple-
mentation of sections 106, 136, and 138 of the Aviation 
and Transportation Security Act (Public Law 107–71). 
Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following: 
(1) How and on what date the Administration 
complied with each provision of such sections. 
(2) For each provision of such sections that has 
not been complied with, the actions the Administra-
tion has taken as of the date the report is trans-
mitted to Congress and the estimated completion 
date and costs for actions that the Administration 
must take in order to comply with that provision. 
(b) ACCESS TO STERILE AREAS.—All personnel ac-
cessing airport sterile areas from unrestricted areas shall 
undergo security screening in accordance with section 
44901(a) of title 49, United States Code. 
(c) ACCESS TO SECURE AREAS.—The Transportation 
Security Administration shall ensure that all personnel ac-
cessing airport secure areas have successfully undergone 
a background check, conducted by the Transportation Se-
curity Administration, consisting of all measures required
of passenger screener personnel of the Administration 
under section 44936 of title 49, United States Code. 
(d) LIMITATION ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—
Nothing in this section shall be construed to provide pas-
sengers, airport workers, or other personnel not granted 
regular access to secure areas before the date of enact-
ment of this Act authority to do so, regardless of whether 
such person has undergone security screening. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) STERILE AREAS.—The term ‘‘sterile areas’’ 
means any part of an airport that is regularly acces-
sible to passengers after having cleared a passenger 
security screening checkpoint. 
(2) SECURE AREAS.—The term ‘‘secure areas’’ 
means parts of an airport complex not typically ac-
cessible to passengers, including areas outside of ter-
minal buildings, baggage handling and loading 
areas, parked aircraft, runways, air control towers, 
and similar areas. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsections (b) and (c) take 
effect on the 120th day following the date of enactment 
of this Act.
SEC. 15. MANPADS. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, acting through the head of the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration and the Under Secretary for Science 
and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, 
shall transmit to Congress a report on defending against 
the threat from MANPADS attacks on commercial air-
craft. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report shall include, at a min-
imum, the following: 
(1) An evaluation of the current and projected 
future 
threats 
to 
commercial 
aircraft 
from 
MANPADS, including an assessment of the likeli-
hood that terrorist groups will obtain MANPADS of 
various levels of sophistication, the ability of ter-
rorist groups to use such systems, and the relative 
effectiveness of such systems against commercial 
aviation. 
(2) A technical assessment of the adequacy and 
maturity of current aircraft-based countermeasures 
to current and projected threats from shoulder-
launched missiles. 
(3) To the extent that any countermeasures 
under paragraph (2) are assessed to be sufficiently
technically mature for deployment on commercial 
aircraft, a determination of—
(A) the technical ability of such counter-
measures to prevent MANPADS from impact-
ing an aircraft; 
(B) any operational difficulties with de-
ploying, maintaining, or using such counter-
measures; and 
(C) the cost of deploying and maintaining 
such countermeasures on all or part of the com-
mercial aircraft fleet. 
(4) An assessment of alternate technological ap-
proaches for MANPADS countermeasures, including 
estimates of timelines for development, testing, and 
evaluation. 
(5) A description of the need for additional 
mid-term and long-term research and development 
to advance technologies to meet current and future 
threats, including a cost-benefit analysis of alter-
native technologies. 
(6) The criteria and plans for selecting tech-
nologies for additional research and development de-
scribed in paragraph (5). 
(7) The status and plans for programs of the 
Department of Homeland Security to decrease the
risk of MANPADS attacks on commercial aircraft 
through airport perimeter security, improved identi-
fication of MANPADS by the Bureau of Customs 
and Border Protection, and international efforts to 
counter proliferation and otherwise reduce avail-
ability of MANPADS to terrorist groups or individ-
uals. 
(c) MANPADS DEFINED..—In this section, the term 
‘‘MANPADS’’ means man-portable air defense systems, 
which are shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile systems 
that can be carried and transported by a person.
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