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· Attended ASR removal telcon, RNAV advertised on ATIS telcon, Weekly Service Center telcon, PFS te lcon, JPCDP, PARC NAV RNP to ILS, PHL local union meeting, PBN Dashboard telcon and NPA telcon. REMOTE TOWER at JYO: Keiron Heflin (IAD) leads NATCA's efforts at Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO) and the Remote Tower Data Collection. Mr. Heflin provided the information below for the membership on this week's activities. · August 25, 26 and 27th made up the fourth week of passive data collection for the Remote Tower at Leesburg airport (JYO). · The SME's were Brian Byllesby (TOA) and Todd Jones from (MSY). · The weather was good VFR for the majority of the week while the SME's tested the remote tower equipment. · Mr. Heflin has been continually impressed at the objectivity and candor the NATCA controllers b ring to the table each week and this week was no different. · The week culminated with a Task Force meeting on Thursday afternoon with NATCA, Saab, FAA, PASS, VSATS and JYO airport management in attendan ce. PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO): Jeff Woods (I90) is the Article 48 Representative to the PMO. Mr. Woods' report to the membership is below. · Attended a TBFM Customer Forum Meeting at Mitre · Attended a meeting with Dale Wright (S&T) to get caught up after being on Annual Leave last week · Attended a telcon with Corrie Conrad (NATCA UIC) and her counterparts · Worked issues with new TFDM Rep, D10 Voice Switch, Path Stretch component of TBFM, and TSAS key sites. · Short week due to being on AL Monday and Friday. NEXTGEN: Mel Davis (SCT) leads NATCA in accordance with Article 114 on NextGen. Mr. Davis' report for this week is below. · NATCA NextGen Primary Activity this week was to travel to Co lorado in an effort to understand their request for remote air traffic services. o The FAA NextGen Office has been tasked with expending funds provided by the State of Colorado to explore technologies that might provide enough information to control air traffic at current non - towered airports in Colorado. · The FAA NextGen Office team met with State of Colorado officials as well as FAA personnel from ZDV, D01 and the Western Service Area. Additionally, the FAA team visited Centennial Tower just t o get a feel for what ATC looks like from a VFR tower perspective. · The information gathered on this trip will be used to formulate a Concept of Operations and make site selection recommendations back to the State of Colorado. Once these two item s are completed a comprehensive evaluation of current operations and physical infrastructure will be conducted. NAS VOICE SYSTEM (NVS): Jon Shedden (ZFW) leads NATCA's efforts reference the NVS. Mr. Shedden's report for the week is below.