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Tech Center. This support has been crucial to get this system to where it is now in testing and will be important for its continued development. Ops team members joined a group of tech ops and Program Office technical personnel to conduct a TBFM Site Requirement Survey in Portland (PDX). This activity was similar to IDAC Site Requirement Surveys in the fact that ops team personnel work with the facility reps to ensure that they understand the usage of the TBFM system and find the best location in the operation for the equipment. Detailed reports are created to ensure that all the operational and technical issues are addressed, and there will be correct installation of the TBFM system at the facility. TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TFMS) Ryan Jacobs (DCC) is the Article 114 Representative to the TFMS project. His report is below: Tech Refresh – There has been continued regression testing on the Red Hat 7 operating system and Gnome desktop platform. We have continued to encounter several issues that were related to Java and should be fixed by updating to the latest version. We Also identified an acceptable workaround for window management until a fix can be found. ZHU keysites testing is still scheduled to begin the second week in January, with waterfall deployment continuing at the lab environment in Oklahoma City, and then N90, BWI, and ZNY. We will monitor any issues that arise to determine whether or not to proceed with the rest of the waterfall. When discussing tech refresh, members of the Program Office stated their commitment to fixing the latency issues that have plagued TFMS, and to increase attention to sustainment of the systems currently in place. They also recognized the deployment team's request for attention to issues currently in the system that may not be functionally critical, yet still a high priority. R14 – We discussed some default configurations of the surface viewer. We looked at potential icons, colors, and configuration settings. An early look for the surface viewer is scheduled with CSRA in January. We also discussed the labeling of runways, taxiways, ramp, deicing areas, etc. R15 – We discussed RRIA with its current issues and lack of usage. The current plans are to bring RRIA into the core which will fix some current data anomalies but not some of the crucial issues. We discussed that without better data for RRIA to interpret, any improvements to the tool were going to be inconsequential. In order to improve the tool, we need an effective way to track airframes and need the users to provide us with that information. Better data will provide the base for being able to create a better evaluation and thus better decision making.

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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...