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· Time was spent on telcons and conversations concerning implementation of RECAT Phase II. WEATHER: Matt Tucker (ZTL) is the Weather Lead fo r NATCA. Mr. Tucker's report for this week is next. · Flight Service NextGen Initiative (FSNI) o Attended the Article 7 briefing for FSNI emergency frequency rehoming. There are a couple of decommis s ionings outstanding and a letter was being draft ed to finalize the initiative for deployment. · NEXTGEN Weather Processor o Attended a PMR with Raytheon and the program office. There are still a lot of schedule and funding questions. Currently there are four years of funding which will get the pro gram out of Tech Center testing but no deployment. This is a major concern as all the work required for the CHI development that has to be done and then no guarantee of deployment o The CHI planning group met for two days to layout a roadmap for developm ent and worked with Raytheon on some basic layout and functionality details. A lot of the work to be done has to coincide with development of product activities, which is an issue with the funding and schedule concerns. o Attended a joint technical interchange meeting between Raytheon , the contract holder for NWP , and Harris Corp , the holder of the CSS - WX contract. § A number of items were discussed and how interfaces would need to be handled as well as how products will be available and the formats that will be required for accessibility. § Timeliness of products was discussed as latency in weather products is a large issue for controllers and pilots so distribution concepts and failover procedures are going to be hammered out and tested. · CAAC (Chinese) o Mr. Tucker taught a Weather and Air Traffic Management class to the CAAC. o The primary topic he covered was operational bridging and human in the loop in Aviation weather forecasting and how it impacts traffic management decisio ns. o Mr. Tucker also demonstrated a number of automated weather products that are being used now and in the future .