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begins. Listed below are several committees relevant to NATCA, including the new leadership that has been selected for those committees so far for the 116 th Congress. Republicans in the Senate have not yet finalized their committee chairs. Membership and subcommittee leaders for those committees will be decided in the coming weeks. o House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee: ▪ Chairman: Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) ▪ Ranking Member: Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) o House Appropriations Committee: ▪ Chairwoman: Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) ▪ Ranking Member: Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) o House Oversight and Government Reform: ▪ Chairman: Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) ▪ Ranking Member: Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) o Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation: ▪ Chairman: Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) ▪ Ranking Member: Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) o Senate Appropriations: ▪ Chairman: (TBD) ▪ Ranking Member: Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) o Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: ▪ Chairman: (TBD) ▪ Ranking Member: Patty Murray (D-Wash.) o Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: ▪ Chairman: (TBD) ▪ Ranking Member: Gary Peters (D-Mich.) LEGISLATIVE WATCHLIST Once the new Congress is gaveled into session in January, any bills from the 115 th Congress will die and will have to be reintroduced in the new Congress in order to be considered. President Trump will also continue to drive his own legislative agenda and work to shore up political support from his base in preparation for 2020. GA continues to monitor any anti-federal employee legislation and other actions that impact the NATCA membership, including those that would attack the use of official time and federal employee pay and benefits.

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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...