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AIRPORT CAPACITY DECISION SUPPORT TOOL (ADEST) Kristen Laubach represents the membership as the Article 114 Representative for ADEST. Her report is below: There is nothing new to report on ADEST this month. COMMERCIAL SPACE Paul Behan is the Article 114 Commercial Space Representative. His report is below: On March 25, I arrived in Washington, D.C., met with Kevin McLaughlin for the first day of overlap. We received a compressed briefing about commercial space and heard the status of the various stages of the Space Data Integrator (SDI) project. I attended the weekly Executive Pathfinders SDI meeting and met many of the SDI team members. The next day, I attended an SRM panel for 7400.2 and 7210.3 document changes. The panel unanimously concluded that no additional risks would be introduced with proposed changes. I continued with overlap and orientation from the previous day, attended the JSpOG meeting at DCC in Warrenton Va., met with my agency counterpart Duane Freer and the rest of the JSpOG team, and returned to FAA HQ for an afternoon meeting with ANG's Phil Bassett for a briefing on the status of SVO H-RAM. I concluded my trip in D.C. by attending an SDI team meeting for a briefing on SDI MVP (minimum viable product). I met with my agency counterpart Jackie Jackson and discussed the direction of SDI and my roles and relationship with her department, and then returned to JAX. On April 4, I participated on an SDI RFI Review Team telcon to discuss 10 third-party RFI responses for the first and second stage development of SDI. The meeting was abbreviated due to technical difficulties and ended without reviewing all 10 RFI's. Another meeting to complete the review will be scheduled at a later date and time. On April 8-12, I attended the 35 th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo. It was four full days of speakers and panels from government and private space operators from all over the world. The exposition center had hundreds of companies which produce a wide array of systems used in commercial space vehicles. Also present were several major private launch entities such as Boeing, SpaceX, Northrup-Grumman, Harris Corporation and Lockheed-Martin. This presented a great opportunity to introduce myself as the NATCA liaison to the commercial space industry and explain why an open and effective line of communication between us is vitally important to the safety and efficiency of the NAS. While there, I also participated in the JSpOG meeting, the ALR implementation meeting and the SDI stakeholder meeting, all via telcon. During the JSpOG call, we mostly discussed the upcoming Falcon Heavy launch (which launched successfully on April 11), and associated impacts and delays to the users. The ALR kickoff meeting location changed to PCT, and SDI is still working to define what the operational capabilities of the MVP will look like.

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