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o Friday - Mr. Barr and Ms. Barr att ended t he weekly TAGUP Telcon · Ms. Barr Attended the A80 Event 2 Go/No go Telcon · Ms. Barr attended the NATCA SBS/TAMR biweekly Tel co n SURVEILLANCE and BROADCAST SERVICES (SBS) OFFICE : Eric Labardini (ZHU) serves the NATCA Membership as the Article 48 Represent ative to the SBS Office. The weekly reports from Mr. Labardini and other members of the SBS Article 48 Team are below. · Eric Labardini (ZHU), National SBS Article 48 Rep o Full week of telcons started with a discussion on Fusion at New York Appr oach (N90) with FacRep Kevin Maney and NATCA PMO Rep Jeff Woods. o Weekly SBS Program status telcons included the Implementation Team and SBS Weekly. Just over 16,000 aircraft are ADS - B equipped i n the NAS today. Legacy ADS - B avionics are also being upgr aded in the Gulf of Mexico (40 of 47 compl ete) and Alaska (189 complete). United continues to pre - wire their B737 fleet for ADS - B with 72 aircraft complete. o Participated in the SBS/AVS, TSLE, SBS SV IPR, SBS RIO Board, Fusion Focus Group, MEARTS 3nm Fu sion, SBS Hot Topics, and SBS/AJT/AJV telcons. o Several telcons this week surround CLT WAM flight test activity. Multiple flight tests and a final flight inspection will be performed as we wor k toward a CLT WAM IOC event. William Agee and Anthony Schifa no from CLT NATCA have been very helpful in the discussions. o Coordinated with NATCA TAMR this week on a variety of subjects including CLT WAM, N90 Fusion, FMA/Fusion safety work, and a Termi nal mapping issue. Seems a number of Elite sites trying to rea ch Fusion are being delayed due to a lack of a 5nm map. o Participated in the ERAM NUT telcon this week. A number of changes are being sought including: promotion of ADS - B in 5nm sort cells, modification of ADS - B outage information , and Track Based Displ ay Mode. Also discussed operational implications of recent ADS - B avionics anomalies. o A review of the MEARTS IOA assessment of ZAN Fusion was completed with no new risk assessments. o Participated in a discussion on the risk associated with the incons istent use of ICAO flight planning and the lack of capability to predict ADS - B equipage. The risk is really one of a loss of opportuni ty or efficiency versus safety. ERAM processes ICAO flight data and presents info via EDST or tracking, but many sites sti ll use flight progress strips wher e there's a lack of indication. In addition, STARS does not process ICAO flight plan data today. o Participated in several Reduced Oceanic Separation telcons, including one on HITL development. o Led our weekly NATCA S BS team telcon. · Craig Bielek (A90) o Monday traveled to Anchorage. o Tuesday and Wednesday conducted fusion evaluation at Anchorage