Headset testing as a part of the Tone Mitigation National Workgroup continues.
Discussions with future sites are ongoing. The FAA is in the process of purchasing
approximately 1,000 headset splitters for use in terminal facilities with only 2-jack
positions. This is related to CAR-2012-001 and will allow controllers to perform position
relief briefings during OJT. Work continues on updating the deployment spreadsheet to
capture 804 facilities as well as facilities that were expected to get NVS. A survey was
sent to the field to get a more accurate response to the number of splitters needed at
each facility.
The FAA is in the early stages of a refresh of the Small Tower Voice Switch (STVS).
There are approximately 130 STVSs across the NAS.
Fort Wayne (FWA) is reporting significant chronic outages of multiple radios. This was
documented through ATSAP and elevated to an AIR. Local Tech Ops is working with
national Tech Ops as well as with the FTI provider to resolve the issues ASAP.
