He said the company planned to search for a prominent law enforcement official to be in charge of its security policies and would also hire independent auditors and aviation security experts to monitor performance.
"The result is better security policy and the assurance that our nation's aviation security system continues to be vigilant for knives that could be used in a terrorist attack or criminal act against passengers or crew," the union said in a statement.
Mrs. May is not associated with any particular foreign policy, but the main themes of her speech were aviation security; modern slavery and human trafficking, a subject of particular interest to the British government; and the war in Syria.
As a result of the inspector general's review, the CDA fired one aviation security officer who they found violated the agency's use-of-force policy.
Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, a research group in Washington, has studied how aviation security is financed in other countries, and said he believed that shifting toward a system where users paid more was fair.
I strongly believe that aviation security must not be weakened.
No aviation security idea appears to have universal support, however.
It represents the pinnacle of modern aviation security.
"I would create a new aviation security agency," he said.
Congress is likely to vote on aviation security legislation soon.
