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contacted the core SME (Ross Costa) and the four floorwalkers for these sites to ensure their travel is complete. Other telcons attended for familiarity are the S804 – MFD/CAK into CLE telcon and ROC Pre-CAI telcon. We are working with ROC to fix an issue with the MDM4 on the G1 STARs because it is not displaying filled in geo areas correctly. Tech Ops was able to improve the presentation, but it is still not perfect. They have seen this same issue at other facilities and are confident it will not be present after cutover to G4. ROC, NATCA, and management worked with OSF to create maps to use in the interim. TAMR Operational Support Facilities (OSF) – STARs Enhancements 2 (SE2) – We attended the SE2 HITLs at MITRE. The user engagement of SE2 and E-CRDA is currently undergoing a benefits analysis in preparation for the Final Investment Decision (FID), and SE2 has a user engagement HITL focused on a subset of the tools within the SE2 Separation Management, Merging and Spacing (M&S) capability. Software Planning Board (SPB) – Stakeholders agreed to changes in the software release contents for STARs S6.00R8 and S6.00R9 software along with FAA.Archive.122118. Operating Testing and Evaluation (OT&E) – OSF SMEs from SEOSF and DVOSF continued support of the S6R8 RM OT&E that started Nov. 26 and continued through Dec. 14. Program Trouble Report Working Group (PTRWG) – At the December meeting, stakeholders ranked new PTRs. Stakeholders reviewed PTRs on the watch list and reviewed several that were already ranked. In addition, closed PTRs that were open since the S4 baseline, are no longer needed or have been corrected within the software. • As a follow-up from the November PTRWG, there was a recommendation that 15 DMS PTRs be closed. These were all Type IV and most were written against the S4 baseline. Several of those PTRs were written about DMS response messages. TSLE will open one new PTR to cover all known deficient DMS response messages. • We reviewed several PTRs that were already ranked, as requested by stakeholders. There were four notable movements into the Top 50: o FAAst12111 (Remove and Replace Processor with Image from USB Thumb drive) moves from 111 to 29.500 o FAAst13714 (ADS-B ACID/ICAO Search) moves from 094 to 32.500 o FAAst12390 (Increase number of coordination channels) moves from 148 to 38.500 o FAAst06332 (Remote Tower processor R&R procedure) moves from 155 to 38.500 We reviewed nearly 20 ranked PTRs/CCDs that had the latest assigned rank date in the first half of 2016. Six of those will be closed, one (FAAst08559 – DR&A Datasets

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• ERAW received a briefing from Second Level Engineering and the Program Office on the Alternate Display Path in support of R-side Tech Refresh. The goal is to allow the AIX processor to provide data to the glass in the event of an MDM failure due to th...
• SE2 Use Case Updates
• o 4th Line – The team reached agreement on the 4th Line use case referencing the ON/OFF switch functionality. Once all team members concur, the use case will be sent to SLE.
• o Airspace Transfer – The team discussed the changes to the use case and a section was added for the "Push" function. The team also decided that language should be added to capture review of national procedures.
• DataComm CHI
• o The uplink type for Speed and Route Generic Uplinks was discussed. A recommendation was made to modify the classification of the Confirm Speed (uM134) and Confirm Assigned Route uplinks from Temporary Generic Uplinks to Permanent Generic Uplinks. Th...
• ER 195554 AHI and Point Outs
• o The team reviewed and reached agreement on the problem statement, "The desired behavior is to add system functionality that will insert an AHI (Auto Handoff Inhibit) for an aircraft from the initiating sector to the receiving sector after the receiv...
• ER 194653 Pending Font and Brightness
• o The team discussed and reached consensus on the problem statement, "Its desired behavior is to change the button functions on the SAA Filter Menu so that both hot and pending airspaces can be changed independently."
• Altimeter CAR
• o The team discussed updating altimeters at a more frequent rate. A task team has been created to work the issue with SLE and respond to the CAR.
• ER 186070 Weather Updates
• o The ER describes a situation where the weather report for a specific station did not update and the old weather remained displayed. A draft problem statement will be created with a desired behavior of reporting weather observations as missing, if th...
• PDRR/ABRR
• o Critical AIMS 196440 was written against PDRR and a software fix is needed to correct the issue. The ERAM fix will be delivered in April 2019, and the TFMS fix in 2020 or later. The initial suggestion is to disable PDRR at the facility level until t...