# 2025-02099: Safe Skies Only: FAA Ditches DEI for Top-Tier Talent Hiring

2025-02099, Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-01-31, effective 2025-01-21 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02099
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-02099
- Title: Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 8651
- Published: 2025-01-31
- Effective: 2025-01-21
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Safe Skies Only: FAA Ditches DEI for Top-Tier Talent Hiring

## Summary

The President has ordered the FAA to stop all hiring based on race, disability, or other non-job-related factors and focus only on skills and safety. This affects FAA employees and future hires, ensuring only the most capable people keep our skies safe. The changes start immediately, with reviews of current staff to replace anyone not meeting top safety standards.

## Effects PRIA read

- FAA must end DEI-based hiring: mixed, medium. On January 21, 2025, the President ordered the FAA to immediately stop hiring based on race, sex, disability, or any other criteria other than job-related capability. The Memorandum requires rescinding all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and returning to merit-based hiring focuse…
- Review and replace FAA critical-safety staff: mixed, medium. The Secretary of Transportation and the FAA Administrator must review past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and take appropriate action to replace any individual who fails to demonstrate requisite capability with a high-capability individual to e…

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## Sources
- [2025-02099 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02099/keeping-americans-safe-in-aviation)
- [2025-02099 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02099.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02099 (as of 2026-06-08).