A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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o Potomac TRACON tunable radios work group o NVS Human Factors Working Group o NVS Lo cal and Remote OVR Tone control o Radio Media Gateway (RMG) fail - over requirements · Other issues worked: o NVS dual touch scre en call queue functionality o NVS physical sidetone controls o NVS Call Transfer o NVS Dual - jack modules drawings INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) is the Article 48 Representative for IDS - R. Mr. Smith's report for this week is below. · While the IDSR program office is sti ll working with an unknown FY16 budget and has a frozen waterfall plans are being made to visit facilities throughout the NAS that have had NIDS work suspended. These facilities range from IOC to " installation in progress " to " waiting to complete the local database. " Five facilities are projected to be visited through the end of January: CID, MKE, MIA, SGF and P80/PDX. Article 48 lead Richie Smith will be attending most of the facility meet ings but the program office needed to prioritize two trips during the same week in December, to CID and MKE. A member of the national IDSR SME team will be attending each of these visits to talk with local representation and make sure that their voices are heard. · During the first week in December meetings will take place at the Technical Center in Atlantic City to discuss the next maintenance build for NIDS and the next operating system. It has been too many months since these meetings were held and the present task is daunting. There are approximately 200 " fixes " that need to be addressed. Major fixes have been addressed in the Emergency Releases but the rest of these need to be bundled into a priority order, with the FAA looking at the cost. · Some facilities have been or will be contacted about continuing their database compiling. This will be done by both the Program Office and NATCA. A few months ago the PO sent out an email stating that the waterfall was frozen pending future financial dec isions. What they didn ' t say in that email was that database development was not frozen. So now they, of course, are behind in data collection and are pointing fingers at the sites, blaming them for not sending information. DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) le ads NATCA's efforts on DataComm as the Article 48 Representative. Mr. Geyer's report for this week is below. · This week the SME s were at the Tech Center to test the UBER CHI build that will be going to the Key Sites on December 7 th . This is the same build that will be used at the beginning of the waterfall. As with any new system, there will be Problem Trouble Reports (PTR s). o The question the team must decide is if there are acceptable mitigations and how often to the problems occur. The sys tem does have PTR s, but the frequency and seriousness of the issues relatively low. o The current system the key sites are using is performing well for PDC and CPDLC. Most of PTR s are associated with CPDLC and since