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There is a National Workgroup working on getting Taxiway Lander ASDE - X Enhancement to all viable ASDE - X sites. The site waterfall is currently being worked on. The waterfall has not yet been approved thru all lines of business. The workgroup is also finalizing the eLMS training associated with this adaptation. Runway Incursion Prevent ion Shortfall Analysis (RIPSA) Tentatively TUS, SAT, DAB have been selected as potential site locations. A new market survey should be out within a few weeks. More information to follow once this market survey is finalized. •Commence test system(s) installation at test site(s) – Q2FY19 •Complete test system(s) installation at test site(s) – Q3/Q4FY19 •Commence testing and evaluation process – FY20 Surface Safety Group (SSG) The last SSG me eting was conducted on April 10 - 12, 2018. I am the co - lead of the group. The group is designed to identify and understand the contributing factors, analyze risks, and develop safety strategies to maintain the safest levels of sur face operations. This group does a deeper dive into all of the Category A, B, and C runway incursions in the system. Originally this group was the Root Cause Analysis Team (RCAT). The RCAT only looked at Category A and B events when making recommendation s to the Runway Safety Council (RSC) to change the NAS. The development of the SSG I bel ieve will assist in making data - driven recommendations and are not recommendations based on specific events. The next meeting will be July 9 - 13. At this meeting, we p l an on having updates from the three subgroups which includes the Data Analysis Team, SSIT, and Outreach/Education. We also plan on developing implementation plans for the 16 outstanding action items. The SSG initially reviewed two full years of data (FY 2 016/2017) of category A/B/C runway incursion data. In each meeting, we review the last quarter ' s c ausal/ c ontributing factors for Operational Incidents (OIs), Pilot Deviations (PDs), and Vehicle/Pedestrian Deviations (VPDs). The SSG is continuing to review 16 initiatives contained in the SSG work plan and has formalized the team members for each of the three workgroups to focus on completing the initiatives. Surface Safety Campaign Thru PFS, Runway Safety will begin a Surfac e Safety Campaign with a kickoff in the near future. This campaign will help bring controller awareness to the trending surface safety events in the NAS. One of my continued goals is to get more information to the field, and this is one of the techniques t o do so. Surface Watch is a recognition program developed for the Surface Safety Campaign. Surface Watch will allow for an opportunity to bring additional awareness as well as recognition for good work in the field.