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ABE, CAK, NCT, D01, D10, I90, and A80, who did a great job working with a new tool with minimal training. S6.R7 Drop 15 was tested in mid-December due to problems discovered during keysite activity. The fixes were verified and R7 will go back to keysite with a planned national release in early 2019. S6.R6a was also tested in mid-December and declared suitable for keysite. R6a is a variation of the R6 build primarily consisting of tracking enhancements originally designed to augment SCT surveillance. R6a will be released to a limited number of sites with specific tracking needs. S6.R9 OT&E is scheduled to begin Jan. 7, 2019. Program Trouble Report Working Group (PTRWG) – The December meeting continued significant cleanup efforts by going through old PTRs and closing several. NATCA elevated a PTR related to ADS-B information and a PTR that increases coordination list capacity. NATCA also elevated a PTR that improves Range Bearing Line functions and STARs playback accuracy. MSAW/CA Board – During recent R9 testing, aural alarm functionality was negatively impacted by a software change. Previous to R9, the aural alarm could be adapted to the owner of the track (tower or TRACON). In R9, the aural alarm sounded, regardless of track owner, therefore increasing nuisance alarms. The Board unanimously agreed the pre-R9 alarm behavior is preferred. TSLE will engage with Raytheon to update the software. Software Planning Board (SPB) – During the December meeting the SPB added air traffic content to S6.R8 Drop 4, and modified content to S6.R9. Keysite selection for upcoming builds was also discussed with SPB participants. The rollout of the new STARs Operating System will begin with sites in the Northeast and will continue westward. To shorten deployment times prior to the OS rollout, the R9 and R10 builds should follow a similar deployment strategy, northeast and westward. Stakeholders discussed outliers to the rollout plan such as the Academy in OKC, and sites with specific software needs such as SCT and D01. TSLE software made the following recommendations: • NEOSF solicit for an ELITE keysite for R9 (satisfies the ELITE keysite need) • DEN OSF discuss when they need R9/TSAS, consider training, and if they need to be a keysite (satisfies the consolidated TRACON keysite need) • Pacific OSF discuss keysite of R9 (and R10, R1, and R2) with SCT (satisfies the consolidated TRACON keysite need). TAMR Deployment and Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) – We participated in the Pre- CCB meeting via telcon on Dec 6 and dialed into the CKB and HTS IOC. We are planning telcons this month to get familiar with the sites for the January 2019 IOCs. We

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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...