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Mr. Rose traveled to the FAA Technical Center the week of Jan.13-17 and participated in a Safety Risk Management (SRM) Panel and the monthly Program Trouble Reports Working Group (PTRWG) Meeting. During the two-day PTRWG meeting to start off the year, stakeholders reviewed, ranked, and discussed 13 PTRs of interest as requested by stakeholders. Stakeholders reviewed seven items on the Watch List. Seven SE2 PTRs were closed. They also reviewed the top 25 rank positions for correctness and stakeholder selected Ranked PTRs in the top 100 for any significant rank changes. The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 13. Operational Testing and Evaluation (OT&E) - Mr. Rose traveled to the FAA Tech Center Jan. 6-13, with Scott Kendrick (NATCA OSF) to do informal testing on FAAst14078, Approach Runway Verification (ARV). They worked with AJV and TSLE testing to develop a formula or a standard to implement this when fielded in the NAS when it becomes available in R10. Adaptations were created for Houston, San Francisco, and Lincoln. Another test week was scheduled for Jan. 21-24. Ross Costa, NATCA TAMR Training Lead - Mr. Costa (RSW) has been working over the last month to mitigate some of the training concerns for JCF. We have been working with the stakeholders to develop the appropriate schedule based on equipment installation and software preparation for the cutover. We have discussed some of the potential impacts to training based on different dates and the sites at JCF and are working to adjust their schedules accordingly. Mr. Costa has also been continuing his work on the keyboard application for the training iPads. A beta version of the application has been installed and the team has received training iPads to test the application. The first application is being developed for ERAM and we will be working shortly on the STARS application. Mr. Costa also travelled to Laredo, Texas (LRD), to brief the site on their training for their cutover. LRD will be transitioning as a non-contiguous tower being remoted out of the Corpus Christi STARS system. They will be upgrading from STARS Lite to STARS Elite. The training briefing included what type of training Raytheon will be providing, the general layout of dates for training, and we worked on providing a dedicated training space for the controller training to occur outside of the operations quarters. TAMR Operational Support Facilities (OSF) Update Submitted by Scott Kendrick (North Texas-OSF) - Software Planning Board (SPB) - Stakeholders continue working on build content for the STARS software release S8.00R2. Eight new type two PTRs are being proposed to be incorporated in the build. MCP Radar Status icons show passed radar reinforcement rate when no monitoring is active, abnormal condition monitor causes failed radar status in SSA, notification of "CA INHIBIT" is inadequate notification of when "MSAW" is inhibited is inadequate, notification of when "MCI" is inhibited is inadequate, aircraft type undo, software should not allow only remaining resources to be reconfigured offline, and reflection suppression logic should handle additional known reflection cases.

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