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• Webschedules(WMT) o We have a new support contractor for WMT. o Mr. Santa has been working with the new contractor to review the dozens of open tickets generated by th e month long lapse of support. Getting the servers and program more stable is a lso high on the priority list. We do have wee kend support now and Mr. Santa expects a slow movement towards more stability in the program. o Please contact Mr. Santa ( richzdc@yahoo.com ) if you have any concer ns or needs from this program. • ATOMS o ATOMS i s the CRU replacement program. o The team is working daily to roll th is out by the end of this year. We have four NATCA SMEs on the program. Two of them are geared at making the general program better and two ar e focused on shift management. o We have weekly meetings on the construction of the program and it is going pretty good, but slow. The agency is trying to roll out the first test facility on A pril 1... that seems unlikely. As soon as we get an operating demo, Mr. Santa will try to include a few more NATCA testers. • CRU o Along with WMT, the agency has added a bunch of new OT codes. These codes were meant to be only for management usage and should not be impacting the BUEs. o If you know of any instances where management is requiring CIC or BUE to use these new codes, pl ease let Mr. Santa know. • OPAS o Mr. Santa has recently heard that OPAS (the replacement for WMT) is on an indefinite hold. • CEDAR o We are planning a meeting to discuss the approval for expanded training form usage in CEDAR. This has been on hold for a few year s now but we have finally received the initial go ahead to explore the possibility of expanded usage of CEDAR for electronic recording of training. o The MOR portion of CEDAR will have a few new dropdowns for runway safety. • FALCON o The biggest ask for FALCON is automatic synced voice. It is being worked on , b ut is still a few months away. HUMAN FACTORS: Jay Barrett (MIA) is the D . C . - b ased NATCA Article 48 Re presentative for Human Factors. Below is Mr. Barrett's report to the membership. • The Human Performance Team (HPT) continues to be very active defining exactly what the scope and substance of the team will be. The ultimate goal is to influence Agency vision, analysis , and policy in all areas of NAS operations. The office is trifurcated with the mature fatig ue risk management office, a human factors office , and a health and wellness office. My role continues to require me to work alongside the HPT manager (Jason Demagalski) and coordinate activities in each office and collaborate on the implementation of acti vities. • The fatigue office activities include: