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would be and a discrepancy on the appropriateness of capturing that in a LOA. It is NATCA's position that standard language pertaining specifically to THA NOTAMs be in each LOA. The LOA is on hold until a ruling can be obtained from FAA executives. ALR for winged reentry - The ALR team was reconvened to discuss the feasibility of applying ALR to winged vehicle reentries to inland sites within the CONUS. The team formulated an informational slide deck that was presented to FAA executives on Dec. 12. It will be communicated that ALR for winged reentries to inland sites is technically possible, but due to the sizes of the THAs it would impose a major impact to the NAS, and that major airports such as PHX, LAS, and dozens of other underlying airports, would potentially have to suspend ATC services while an active THA exits over the airports. QP Draw - Efforts are still underway to operationalize the QP-Draw feature in a future ERAM release. This feature would enable controllers at enroute facilities to draw hazard areas associated with launch/reentry activities on an inactive sector and then have the airspace PVD'd to the active sectors. This functionality would eliminate the current process of CPCs manually entering up to 16 sets of latitude/longitude coordinates on each individual scope needing to see the hazard areas. This would be an immediate reduction in controller workload and distraction. We held a telcon on Nov. 26 with members of the National User Team and presented to the full team on Dec. 10. This functionality will have a wide array of other benefits in addition to commercial space, such as depicting TFRs for firefighting, VIP movements, large-scale sporting events, etc., which are all currently entered manually on live radar positions. It is anticipated that this functionality could possibly make it into an ERAM release by the spring of 2021. Alaska Aerospace at ZAN - Alaska Aerospace, the operator of the spaceport located in Kodiak Alaska, presented briefings to controllers at Anchorage Center regarding plans of commercial operators to begin launching small scale rockets from Kodiak. The tempo of launches is estimated to reach 36 launches per year by 2022. I traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, along with representatives from ATO SpaceOps (AJR) and the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to familiarize ourselves with the unique operations at ZAN and to provide supplemental information to Alaska Aerospace's briefing, as well as answer any questions that the controllers at ZAN had about space launch and reentries in the NAS. DATACOMM Ray Berndt (ZJX) is the Article 114 Rep for DataComm. His report is below: On Nov. 15, the DataComm program reached a significant milestone when Kansas City Center (ZKC) became the first domestic En route facility to declare CPDLC fully operational. On Nov. 18, Indianapolis Center (ZID) became the second domestic En route facility to also declare CPDLC fully operational. These announcements concluded 18 months of valuable site testing that has allowed the DataComm program to implement significant improvements to the DataComm Network Service (DCNS) and initiate future avionics software updates. This milestone would not have been

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