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ATD2 – The ATD2 demonstration will move to DFW airport and expand further into the terminal environment to include surrounding airports, TRACON, and En Route. This next phase of ATD2 will focus on building a multi airport terminal departure scheduling solution. NATCA has selected John Short at DFW tower as the new ATD2 representative to see the project continue forward. MITRE – NATCA received a briefing at MITRE regarding the work they are conducting regarding commercial space integration, UAS integration, and remote tower services. NATCA continues to work with MITRE to provide a controller-based perspective to the research they are conducting on behalf of the FAA. NOTAMs – NATCA recently participated in a telcon regarding NOTAMs. We expressed our concerns that any system must be able to prioritize and accurately display NOTAM information that is critical to flight safety. OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND SCHEDULING (OPAS) Jason Doss (ZJX) leads the NATCA effort for web-based scheduling and other operational programs. His report is below: WMT Scheduler – We worked closely with the developer of WMT to resolve issues some BUEs were experiencing, logging into the website after the migration to MyAccess authentication. Some members experienced problems with invalid credentials, requiring calls to MyIT help desk to resolve the issue, and their patience during the transition is appreciated. Several other bugs were identified on the site relating to Windows 10 and a glitch with requests in pay period 27 not being handled properly. The fixes have been thoroughly tested and are now deployed. CRU/A-SISO – We received notice from the Agency that the submission of time cards for pay period 27 of 2018 will close early due to the Christmas holiday. The submission of time cards to CASTLE generally must be completed by noon on Tuesday after the end of the pay period. Since that fell on Christmas Day, the Department of the Interior requested that time cards be submitted by 1600EST on Thursday, Dec. 20. This required all timekeepers to manually enter the expected shifts and leave for all controllers before the deadline. We have been in contact with headquarters to ensure the timekeepers have been adequately briefed and prepared for how to handle the data entry. We encourage all members to be diligent in reviewing their LES for pay period 27-2018 and pay period 1-2019 to ensure that their pay is calculated correctly. ATOMS – There are no substantive updates on ATOMS since our meeting with the Agency in November. We continue to look forward to working collaboratively to replace the aging WMT and CRU-ART systems. PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS Garth Koleszar (ZLA), Lydia Baune (GEG) and Josh Cooper (SCT) are members of the National Professional Standards committee. Their report is below:

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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...