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For any questions or problems with registration, contact Grace Colby , NATCA Executive Administrative Assistant : gco lby@natcadc.org . SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE SOFTWARE: Rich Santa (ZDC) is the Article 48 Representative working the Admin istrative Software initiatives. His report to the membership for this week is next. · Webschedules (W MT) o Mr. Santa is still pushing the agenc y to bring on support for WMT. o The FAA seems to now have a pla n in place but it is sluggish. o Mr. Santa will follow up and hopef ully have an answer. · CEDAR o The team is planning on a telcon for t he updated traini ng portion of CEDAR this week. Tom Adcock (NATCA Training Representative) is involved also. · Software team o Mr. Santa put a request for additional members to be on the testing software team. o He will receive the list soon for review. INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) is the I DS - R Article 48 Representative. Mr. Smith's report for the week is below. · The IDS Replacement program office has announced that the Joint Resolution Counc il (JRC) meeting to determine the future of the program is now tentatively scheduled for January 20th. o This is another month delay to the rescheduling previously reported. The Program Management Office has not completely " bought in " but the Program Man ager has been advised to prepare for a meeting on that date. o What this actually means to the future of the program is very unclear. We all eagerly await news on the financial future of the NIDS program. · Next week the PO, All Weather Inc, (AWI) and NATCA will meet for three days to discuss, outline and give suggestions toward the next maintenance release of software and emergency builds/delta releases. A delta release is what facilities like PIT are waiting for to prove the software fixes and mov e forward in the NIDS process. · During the week of December 14 th , CID and MKE will be visited by program office personnel and NATCA. CID is still awaiting to be brought up to date on the latest software builds and patches while MKE will be given a w alk through of the Help Desk and AIMS ticket reporting procedures. · The Implementation Team is working on coordinating a " go back " schedule to visit the long list of facilities that the program office has been less than helpful towards over the last few months. Some of these visits will be brief and the trips will be compacted. An example is that a proposal is being coordinated to visit MIA, SGF , and P80 during one week. NATCA had suggested trying to visit facilities in the same time zone during one w eek but that seems not to be a