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National Office Week in Review: Oct. 21, 2015

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problem statement will be sent to SLE . No use case is planned for this ER. o SIG 1587 Procedure Altitude: § The final CHI for SIG 1587, Pr ocedure Altitude, was reviewed. The team was in agreement with the CHI as developed and this was com municated back to the CHI team. o SIG 1647 Multiple Flight Plans: § The task team continues to work on this issue, they ar e reviewing both pro cedural and software solutions. Additionally, a tracking ER has been opened to facilitate analysis of recent examples of the issue, that ticket is ER 151895. o ER 90370 Visual Notification of Sector Status: § The task team will have a draft problem statement ready for discussion during next week's telcon. o ER 119397 Passing 4 th Line to ARTS/STARS: § The task team will have a draft problem statement and use case available for discussion at next week's telcon. o ER 131943 Terminal H ERT Coding: § A PRED exists that may provide a solution for this issue, the functional behavior language of the PRED was sent to the team for review. The team will discuss the language next week and determine if it is an appropriate solution if so, no prob lem statement will be written and the AIMS will be updated to re flect the user team's decision. Additionally, the status of the PRED will be discussed at the next packaging team meeting. o ER 136109 Unable Handoff Back to Approach: § Task team's work is ongoing. INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) represents NATCA's members on the IDS - R project. Mr. Smith's update for this week is below. · NATCA was informed late last week that the IDSR funding decision topic will n ot be included in the October 28th Joint Resources Council (JRC) meeting. o A few of the reasons floating around are : § Not enough time to look into the issue § The agenda was too full to fit IDSR in. o The JRC is meeting again in November and December and NATCA has been unofficially told that the IDSR topic will likely not make it into the November meeting. · The program office has been given clearance to restart the waterfall with a very limited scope. They are going to concentrate on facilities that have been " highly invested in " and will be focused on getting these facilities on the path toward IOC. The facilit ies are PHL, PIT, PVD, MIA, MCO, DSM. No sch edule has been coordinated yet. NAS VOICE SYSTEM (NVS): Jon Shedden (ZFW) is the NVS Article 48 Representative. Mr. Shedden's report to the membership for this week is below.

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