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problem statement will be created with a desired behavior of reporting weather observations as missing, if they are beyond an adapted problem statement. This will be discussed during the next team telcon. Without this fix, old weather shows as current every 24 hours based on the time of the old WX report. • 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 the fixes are deployed. NAS VOICE SWITCH (NVS) Jon Shedden (ZFW) is the Article 114 Representative to the NVS project. His report is below: The NAS Voice System (NVS) schedule has officially slipped. The FAA and Harris are continuing to work on a resolution. Next Generation Air-Ground Communication (NEXCOM) continues deployment of new CM300/350 V2 radios to terminal facilities across the country. Some terminal facilities in the NAS are using very old radios and hear a pop back or "squelch tail" when they release their transmitters. The new radios being deployed under NEXCOM Segment 2 do not have this "feature," as the squelch tail is generally regarded as undesirable in radio communications. This issue has surfaced twice during deployment and the Program Office should brief future affected facilities prior to install. The NEXCOM Program Office has kicked off the Emergency Transceiver Replacement program. This program will be replacing aging tunable transceivers at DEN, HNL, PCT, PHX, SCT, and SLC. They will also replace approximately 2000 of the grab-and-go style emergency transceivers (e.g. PET-2000). The NAS Voice Recorder Program (NVRP) is the replacement for existing NAS voice recorders (DALR, DALR2, DVRS, DVR2). The Program Office presented this program to the JRC and received approval to proceed to Final Investment Analysis. We continue to work through vendor evaluations for this program. The Tone Mitigation National Workgroup first met in September 2017 to discuss potential mitigations to reduce the number and severity of tone/noise events across the NAS. This workgroup was created largely because of the number of tone/noise events occurring at PCT. One of the outcomes from this workgroup was investigating the use of new headset bases which incorporate an active limiter. PCT has completed their evaluation and Houston TRACON (I90) has been identified as the next site for testing in January 2019.

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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...