A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Issue link: http://natca.uberflip.com/i/1087616
C90 will be replacing the Main Display Monitors (MDM) throughout their ops floor on March 15. I also attended a C90-related SRM panel about radar Terra Fix removal. I am working with AJV (FAA Requirements) about color requests emanating from facilities throughout the NAS, as well as TSAS color requests. Software and hardware dependences need to be reviewed prior to the remaining Initial Operating Capability (IOC) dates due to the government shutdown. NATCA TAMR is working with NATCA National on SME requests to support TAMR deployment and software testing. Training-wise, NATCA TAMR is collaborating with the Agency, both on CBI training requirements for R8 software, and the new R7 training brief. Plain language documents will still be produced, but NATCA TAMR has asked and received approval for an Air Traffic-only training brief for each software build. Due to the government shutdown, refresher training is required at both Huntington and Charleston, W.Va. prior to new IOC dates. Dates have yet to be determined. Deployment and Implementation are on hold until a new waterfall can be agreed upon. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT/TERMINAL SEQUENCING AND SPACING (TBFM/TSAS) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM/TSAS. His report is below: TBFM leadership traveled to the Tech Center to begin planning meetings for future activities. During this time, the Program Office, AJV85, SLE, and NATCA members met to review the impacts of the government shutdown on the various TBFM initiatives. The leadership team then met with Headquarters to review these affects to milestones. This information will be put together with other program's impact reports and used by FAA and NATCA leadership to plan prioritization of future work. Additionally, the TBFM leadership group met with the NEC/iTBO co-leads to discuss impacts and possible initiatives that could be worked on in the near future, depending on the final direction given about each program's new waterfalls. Additional members of the TBFM Ops team visited the Tech Center to work on sustainment planning and testing. Along with assistance from Tech Center personnel and Contract Support, these sustainment activities have helped to identify issues in the interim builds and helped improve the TBFM product that gets delivered to the field. During the shutdown there was only minimal work done on the system, but there continued to be tickets submitted by facilities that needed to be reviewed. Additionally, there was some work completed by Leidos on certain important sustainment issues that had to be reviewed as well. The Ops team reviewed these tickets/issues and helped evaluate the state of the current fielded system. The TSAS team met the same week at the Tech Center to work on TSAS use-case planning. There were a number of items that have been identified over the course of testing the TSAS system at the Tech Center that are of high priority to the success of the fielding of the product in the future. Some of these were identified in initial requirements whereas others are newer. A comprehensive review was done so that the contractor would have all the information needed with these requirements to ensure the correct design in the future.