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o ZNY Oceanic NFDC, o PBN Route Structure, o NOTAM Website Outage, o USNOF Changes, o Weather Observers, o Super Bowl 50 Update · CSG meeting - All the subteams will be briefing their next taskings and their recent past taskings that may affect this CDM year. · FCT Meeting at MITRE Oct 13 - 1 6. Their newest tasking is Strategic Flow Management Application (SFMA). There will be a demonstration during the week. · FET - Will announce the retirement of their new FAA lead. He hasn ' t had a meeting yet but decided to retire in January. We ' ll be looking for a new lead soon. o Note: The NCF meeting will more than likely spawn new ta skings for most of the groups. NCF also know as National Complaint Forum. COMMON AUTOMATION (CARTS): Mickey Vitti (N90) is the C ARTS Article 48 Representative. His report for the week is next. · Traveled to FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City, NJ for week one of the CARTS R37i OT&E. The Test Team consists of Jeff Blow (D21), Frank Servidio (N90) and Mr. Vitti. o OT&E will continue next week. · On Wednesday Oct 7, 2015 while C90 was running the new CARTS R37k.2 build that includes FMA that Chicago will need when the new runway is commissioned on Oct. 15, 2015. R37k.2 included a PTR 3150DD titled All System Processor (SP) Chassis Came Up Standby After C old Start. Thi s PTR caused C90 to experience multiple SP chassis swaps while running R37k.2. This caused some targets to freeze, which can be fixed by a display swabs entry. The problem occurs when a Chassis State Change Msg (msg1403.h) from an AGW, either IDLE or ACTIV E change, is being processed by SMON and misinterpreted as an SP state change which causes the current active SP t o transition to STANDBY state. · On Thursday Oct. 8 th PTR 1008 - 5038GG titled Incorrect SP State Change was generated to fix the above me ntioned issue. Lockheed Martin developed this fix and sent to the Tech Center in Atlantic City on Thursday afternoon. The Tech Center did their internal testing and was ready to demonstrate the fix verification to NATCA on Friday morning Oct. 9 th . · Mr. Vitti would like to personally thank C90 NATCA Member Charlie Driscoll for traveling to Atlantic City on short notice to assist with the fix verification. · On Friday afternoon AJV723 deemed CARTS R37k.3 suitable for key - site activities at C90. T he fast response from all interested parties has kept the Chicago runway commissioning on schedule. DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) represents NATCA as the Article 48 Represen tative to the DataComm project. Mr. Geyer's update for the membership is below. · This week a new Version 12 build was delivered to the Key Sites. This build fixed some of the Trouble Reports that have been found in testing and reported by the sites.