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o NVS Human Factors Working Group (HFWG) o S ubsystem Hazard Analysis (SSHA) · Other issues worked: o Discussion on PCT ' s tunable radios o Coordination of the position maps for next weeks Early User Involvement Event (EUIE) o Scenario discussions for next weeks EUIE · Mr. Shedden will be at the WJHTC in Atlantic Cit y all next week for the second Air Traffic Early User Involvement Event (EUIE). INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) is the IDS - R Article 48 Representative. This proje ct is also referred to as NIDS. His update for this week is below. · Unfortunately , there is not much new information to report about the IDS Replacement program this week. o The program office has started scheduling revisits to facilities that have had the NIDS hardware installed and have or will be c onducting site surveys at only three facilities: L30/LAS (new tower project), TUS (also new tower project) and PBI (new sector in the TRACON). o These are the only new facilities that have been inserted into the waterfall. Eleven facilities have been ide ntified for re - visits to help them along the path toward IOC: PIT, PHL, MCO, MIA, PVD, SGF, P80/PDX, SCT, I90, FSM and S56. Dates and times of these visits have not been coordinated with NATCA yet nor the question of whether or not all the towers of a TRAC ON network will be visited or just the TRACON itself. · The second level engineering team, located in Atlantic City, has recently been complaining about facilities making local database changes and these facilities having to call the help desk or fil e a help desk ticket because the changes that were made caused problems in the database. o The FAA has not shared a list of these facilities but it needs to be made clear – no facility is supposed to make changes to the database at a local level. When a facility asks for help and a SLE walks a POC through changes to the database, those changes are recorded. o If the facility POC makes uncoordinated or unauthorized changes problems will occur. If any facility is having database issues please contact the NATCA IDS - R rep, Richie Smith at eao101@yahoo.com . · Coupled with the focus on the eleven above listed facilities is the fact that the SLE team is under pressure to complete their databases. The complete turn a round from the introductory exchange of data, to the engineering team telling facilities that they didn't need data at a certain time, to the pressure of " we need your data ASAP " is frustrating. · Rumors continue to swirl about the NIDS project. The truth is that there is no news. There is no allocated funding or budget at this time. Some of our brothers and sisters have taken this to mean that the program is dead. At this time there is no data to back this viewpoi nt but rather only speculation. DAT ACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the DataComm Article 48 Representative. Mr.