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I participated in several telcons involving future enhancement to ATPA. The first will involve ATPA processing distance on ghost using CRDA, and/or in the near future, Merging Display Aid (MDA). A second enhancement will enable ATPA processing for single runway curved approaches. Both are works in progress, and the timeline is TBD. ATPA will soon process formation flights. This should be available in S6 R10 build that is being tested throughout November and December 2019. ATPA is voluntary on the part of the individual controller at his/her display. Facilities are not permitted to make any portion of ATPA mandatory. If you have any question about training or adaptation, please contact me below. Mike Sanders, SoCal TRACON, National ATPA Lead laxapproach@icloud.com or atpa@natca.net 913-904-6937 COMMERCIAL SPACE Paul Behan is the Article 114 Commercial Space Rep. His report is below: Acceptable Level of Risk (ALR) - The ALR implementation team now meets once per month. The ALR eLMS course went out on Oct. 15 and was assigned to all facility operational personnel effected by space launch/reentry operations. It was identified that there is no official mechanism for tracking which facility training managers have deemed this course to be disseminated to, as well as no official policy as to whether a CPC can work ALR affected airspace without first taking the course. The initial ALR development team, from which NATCA was excluded, reconvened recently with NATCA involvement and was tasked with determining the feasibility of applying ALR procedures to winged reentries, specifically to inland sites within the CONUS. We will have several meetings to determine the feasibility and these findings will be reported to the FAA executive council in January 2020. Joint Space Operations Group (JSpOG) - The JSpOG met at the Command Center on Oct. 23 and Nov. 8. An SRMP was scheduled for the Space Data Integrator for the week of November 4th to identify risks associated with operationalizing the SDI prototype within the JSpOG at the Command Center. Sierra Nevada Corporation scheduled an LOA kickoff meeting at ZMA for Nov. 13, although we are delaying actual LOA talks with winged reentry operators until ALR procedures for winged reentries are resolved. There will be a series of meetings later this month with Boeing to discuss their CST missions. A meeting with Alaska Aerospace is tentatively scheduled at ZAN for early December. The LOA with the 45th space wing is ongoing, while the LOA with the 30th space wing is nearing completion. QP-Draw meeting with ERAW - Myself, along with counterparts from AJR, AJV, and PMO, briefed the En Route Automation Workgroup (ERAW) at their monthly meeting about ongoing commercial space efforts including SDI and time-based launch procedures. A big topic of discussion was the possibility of operationalizing the QP-Draw (aka PVD Draw) feature in ERAM. This functionality was slated to deploy in a previous release but was not for several reasons. We expressed the need to revisit this functionality and how it would immediately benefit the operation. Currently, CPCs manually input as many as 16 sets of lat/long coordinates and then draw lines to connect the points. This results in a lot of "heads down" time while working live traffic. With QP-Draw, these inputs could be entered on a closed position and "PVD'd" to the active sectors which need to see the airspace. The result will be an immediate