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January, with ITT work being revisited in late January. The need for SME time is being monitored to ensure that necessary changes/additions can be accomplished in a timely manner. The next meeting is scheduled in early January 2019. I attended meetings in Washington, D.C., the last week of November. We were able to work through the initial plans for training and implementation. The team's overall plans are well thought out and we are attempting to take all factors into consideration to ensure a smooth rollout (staffing, trainee workload in the field, competing programs, etc.). The next quarterly trip is tentatively scheduled for February to coincide with the continued Safety Workgroup activities. Upcoming activities: • Weekly/bi-weekly program status and engineering telcons (ongoing) • Human Factors and Test Workgroup (ongoing) • Training telcons (ongoing) • Bi-weekly Risk Board Telcons (ongoing) • Weekly check-in with Program Manager (ongoing) • Weekly Systems Engineering Telcons (ongoing) • SRM Workgroup meetings (Feb – TBD) • Quarterly trip to Washington, D.C., to attend meetings in person (Feb – TBD) HUMAN PERFORMANCE Aaron Katz (P50) is the Article 114 Representative for Human Performance. His report is below: As we close in on the end of the year, the Human Performance world is gearing up for four different research projects that are approved for 2019. We have reached the part of the process whereby we will start coordinating dates for site work to commence. We have an actigraph study that will focus on determining if controllers are able to generate more opportunities for fatigue mitigation. Similar to the 2010 NASA study, we will be looking for volunteers to wear actigrpahs for a period of 30 days. We hope to be able to secure 100 volunteers between the identified test sites. We are pursuing a behavior marker study to be done in conjunction with NASA. This study could help identify key indicators that can be recognized leading up to employees finding themselves in situations where they can become overwhelmed. This study could also help employees with self-awareness of their own behaviors and physical conditions. This data will be collected through the use of on-site one-on-one interviews with the NASA researcher and myself. We are working with CAMI on a study focused on controller scan patterns and ways to identify techniques to get the most out of a scan, along with cognitively processing the information. This work will be done over several months and conducted in simulation facilities.