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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT Update for the Week of Nov. 26, 2018 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & OCEANIC PROCEDURES (ATOP) John Lenhart (ZOA) is the Article 114 Representative for ATOP. His report is below: TR 2 ATOP Tech Refresh 2 (TR2) has once again slid due to the product being unsatisfactory. The ATOP team has found sync and processing issues as well as controller workstation issues, such as mouse speed. ZAN is still projected to have TR2 installed first, but at this point there is no solid date. NATCA and the ATOP program office are in concurrence that TR2 will not be deployed until all the bugs are fixed. ATOP BCP/OCP The ATOP Site Leads, and Agency counterparts met at the Tech Center the week of Nov. 5. The team made the recommendation to concentrate the programs budgetary allotments on ATOP Failure Rapid Recovery. The goal is for ATOP to have a full recovery after a failure within eight minutes. An automated recovery process has been proposed. The AJR-X OCP team also appeared at the meeting. ZAN and ZOA are proposed to have a two- week meeting at ZAN in January 2019 to complete their Operational Contingency Plan. ZAN and ZOA are each other's support facility. ZNY has no proposed dates yet. T26 and T25 Fall Back ZNY elected to fall back to T25 within days of coming up on T26. The reason for the fallback was that ZNY discovered an ATOP functionality that was different than what the ATOP site leads and team approved. When working on the CPDLC indicator, engineering made the Current Data Authority (CDA) indicator not work as designed. ZNY elected to fall back to T25 where their controller briefings were correct. On Nov. 6, the ATOP site leads and team met with SLE to correct the error. ZNY should be back up on T26 before the new year. Oceanic Reduced Separation The SRM for the proposed 23 nm lateral and 20 nm longitudinal separation standards are proposed for the week of Dec. 10 in Dallas. The two standards will be looked at and paneled separately. 23 nm lateral is already an approved standard by ICAO. 20 nm longitudinal is still being modeled. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR) Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Article 114 Representative. His report is below: Florence (FLO), Syracuse (SYR), and Elmira (ELM) transitioned to TAMR STARS this reporting period. In addition, Erie (ERI) approach moved into Buffalo (BUF) and TAMR worked with ERI to ensure tower controllers were properly trained and ready for STARS operations moving

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