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Surface Watch Together, NATCA and t he FAA developed a recognition program to acknowledge individuals and teams of controllers and supervisors for their exemplary saves and initiatives that focus on surface safety. WEATHER Matt Tucker (ZTL) is NATCA's Article 1 14 Representative for Weathe r. His upd ate for the membership is below: Common Support Services - Weather (CSS - WX) Patch testing at Harris was held for two we eks at the factory in Melbourne, Fla . This was a follow up factory test due to a number of requirements that had be en allowed to be pushed to the right. Testing was conducted with a number of simulators due to lack of live feeds for a number of the weather products. Additional testing will be co nducted at the Technical Center, which is in the processes of setting up the live feeds. They will also be conducting testing on ERAM and ATOP prior to installing key sites at ZTL, ZLC, and ZOA. Site surveys were conducted at Chicago Center, Chicago TRACON, Phoenix TRACON, Albuquerque Center, Washington Center, Potomac TRACON, th e Command Center, Boston Center, and Boston TRACON. CSS - WX will provide model data to NAS systems only during the first phase of rollout and testing as the system also needs NEXTGEN Weather Processor (NWP) to be fully functional, including a new 25 sec rad ar Mosaic for ERAM and possibly to STARS. NEXTGEN Weather Processor (NWP) A demo of the Aviation Weather Display was held at Raytheon. There has been progress on the display but all the rework that was requested by the human factors workgroup has not been do yet and is awaiting contract modifications to fund the work. The program also held a Software Baseline Review and a Program Management review. The program is progressing and is scheduled for factory acceptance testing in the winter of 2019. Key si te installation and testing will be late summer of 2019. NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of July 9, 2018 PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS Andy Marosvari (BOI) is the Chairman for NATCA Na tional Professional Standards. Garth Koleszar (ZLA) and Josh Cooper (SCT) ar e members of the National Professional Standards C ommittee. Their report is below: The Professional Standards program is in its eighth year and continues to have a positive impact on the professional ism of controllers nationwide. The program has 530 active members, with a total of over 820 trained to serve as committee members representing every facility in the National Airspace System. Committee members receive training on communication skills an d conflict resolution during a three - day course taught by NATCA. The next class was held at ZID, May 15 - 17.