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attend ed. · Robert Sweet (FAA) has taken over as the Interim Director of the Surface Office. Some scheduled Surface Team site visits have been postponed due to the travel budget constraints that have been put in place due to the Federal Government operating under a Continuing Resolution. · On Day 1 the meeting opened with a discussion about AirLine Gate Time of Departure · (LGTD, what ATC currently views as P - time) accuracy. o The goal is to be able to use LGTD as a short term replacement for EOB T until the airlines are able to accurately provide EOBT. o The analysis that was presented showed that the accuracy of LGTD is within reasonable tolerances to be able to use it as an EOBT surrogate, with the goal of ATC calling for receiving APREQ times well in advance of the plane actually being ready for taxi. o This should result in a decreased workload for ATC, in that ground control will already have a release time for a plane when that plane is ready to taxi, instead of the current process that r equires ground control to have to react after the fact to a release time provide as the plane taxis out. · On Day 2 NASA Ames gave a presentation on the ATD - 2. o Afterward the Stakeholders Group discussed the apparent restructuring or dissolution of the Surface Office. o The Stakeholders Group decided on the following recommendations for its continued support in bringing a surface metering tool to fruition by the 2017 deadline: § Participate in future HITLs with ATD - 2 technology Participate in future Technical Interchange Meetings, with a focus on Ration By Schedule and substitution algorithms Support tactical/strategic (SARDA/SCDM) schedule fusion analysis . COMMON AUTOMATION ( CARTS): Mickey Vitti (N90) is the Article 48 R epresentative for CARTS issues. Mr. Vitti's report for this week is next. · Traveled to FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City, NJ for week two of the CARTS R37i OT&E. o The Test Team consists of Frank Serv idio (N90) and Mr. Vitti. · CARTS R37i will be the last Common ARTS software build. o This build is only slated to go to N90. o On Friday Oct 16 th AJV - 723 deemed R37i.5 suitable for key - site activity at N90. DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Ar ticle 48 Representative for DataComm and is based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Geyer's update for the week is below. · This week the DataComm group worked on an updated waterfall schedule to streamline contract support involvement and also make the NAT C A SME s travel schedule more manageable. o The Progra m Office will be requesting SME s to help with the deployment. Coordination to NATCA sh ould be completed by next week. o The current SME s are in ACY this week to help train the Harris