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Available Window offsets headings from data when resizing) will be Watch Listed, as this may become OBE by Linux OS. System Technical Reports Working Group (STRWG) – Stakeholders are reviewing proposed software modifications to STARs. All previous TCIDS used in coordination with ERAM, MCP RADAR status icons showed passed when no monitoring is active, and aircraft was handed off to the wrong sector (ZLA ATSAP) and filters were allowed to drop and freeze tracks. Lastly, Mr. Kendrick attended the SBS, TAMR Look Ahead, and weekly OSF technical telcons. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the TFDM Article 114 Representative. His report is below: The bid for a part-time TFDM SME to join the core team has closed and a decision will be made within the coming weeks. Thank you to all of you who applied, we were very pleased with the number of volunteers. Another bid will be out soon for a pool of 16 SMEs to join the National Training Cadre pool. This detail will begin in March 2019 and will be responsible for traveling to our first group of waterfall sites and training each controller on TFDM. Please keep an eye out for it if you are interested. The FAA Ops and Training team participated in an internal review of the ATCS Cadre and OS/CIC/TMC 90 percent course material at the tech center. This review was in support of the complete Training team and their official walk-through of both courses over the next few weeks. The reviews went well, and the team was able to get through both course evaluations without too many difficulties. The next steps are to review the Quick Reference Guides (QRG) in early January, followed by the Official 100 percent Course Walk Through in late February. From there we will begin the training of our National Cadre Pool with session one scheduled to begin March 11, 2019. Each cadre will need to be trained on all facets of the system, so each session is scheduled to be two weeks in duration. We will hold three sessions in total, with the next sessions beginning March 26 and April 9, respectively. Coordination has begun with sites two and three in the TFDM waterfall, CLE and IWA, for their pre-site surveys (PSS) in early and mid-February. As with previous PSSs, we will be looking to discuss the sites ability to support current program timelines, training, implementation, etc. From there, we will have follow-up site surveys and coordination meetings throughout the process until we begin training and finally declare Initial Operating Capability (IOC) at each site. Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) – We will be upgrading CLE and PHX with the 5.4 build on Jan. 28 and Feb. 18, respectively. The training and actual start of live traffic with that build still needs to be finalized with each facility. We will also be participating in stress testing of the newest build, 5.5, the week of Jan. 28, with final suitability testing

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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...