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National Office Update: Dec. 9-31, 2018

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ZSE, and ZME keysites. The keysites completed TTL testing the week of Oct. 22 and moved to the ops portion on Nov. 11. Based on successful testing, EAE130 had a projected national release date of Dec. 11, 2018. 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 the new LINUX processors during keysite and waterfall deployment as needed. This will provide display redundancy only and is not considered a back-up system to ERAM. ERAM will need to deploy a separate software release to support the new engineering and testing. The following issues are examples of what the National User Team worked: • SE2 Use Case Updates o 4 th Line – The team reached agreement on the 4 th 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. The team agreed with the recommendation and an update to the appropriate use cases will be made. • 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 receiving sector has approved an automated pointout." • 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

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