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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT Week of Oct. 1, 2018 Update AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV-7) James Keith (D10) is the NATCA Article 114 Representative to the AJV-7 Office. His report is below: NATCA participated as a stakeholder in prioritization of the PIREP operation view of importance. AJV-7 identified seven items from a previous SRM on PIREPS. Andy Marosvari and Matt Tucker ranked the seven items and submitted their score to AJV-7 on Sept. 11. DataComm speeds uplinked to aircraft and it was determined to be an available option. AJV-7 was given the task to access the importance. NATCA was identified to be a stakeholder and was asked to submit a prioritization score. After meeting with a few National User Team members, NATCA's response/score was submitted on Sept. 25. NATCA was identified to be a stakeholder on the prioritization of ADS-B capabilities. There is a meeting scheduled with Eric Labardini (Article 114 representative to the SBS office) to review the capabilities and rank them. After this task is completed, it will be sent to NATCA's National Office for review prior to being submitted as NATCA's score. The terminal CHI team met with the STARS E2 team Sept. 18-20 to address auto point out capabilities, airspace transfer capabilities, and spacing and merging tools. Raytheon presented high level requirements and the team reviewed to ensure they are in line with how the team hopes it will appear on the radar scope. A meeting was held Sept. 19 to discuss STARS color options. A decision was made to form a work group led by the terminal CHI team to address available colors and make recommendations to possible 7110.3 amendments to accommodate some programs requests for color usage. PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS (PS) Andy Marosvari (BOI) is the chairman for NATCA National Professional Standards. Garth Koleszar (ZLA) and Josh Cooper (SCT) are members of the National Professional Standards committee. Their report is below: The Professional Standards program is in its eighth year and continues to have a positive impact on the professionalism of controllers nationwide. The program has about 530 active members, with a total of over 850 trained to serve as committee members representing every facility in the National Airspace System. Committee members receive training on communication skills and conflict resolution during a three-day course taught by NATCA. We are completing our class at MSP on Sept. 27 and are sad to be processing through our last class with Andy Marosvari.

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