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many Radio Stations located on offshore oil/gas platforms that are financially challenged. o 71 of 160 Terminal sites have reached their ADS - B IOC and the maj ority are operating on Fusion. The remaining Terminal sites are ARTS 2E sites awaiting an upgr ade to the ELITE (STARS) build. The transition to Fusion follows and ADS - B IOC. The most recent and upcoming Terminal events: • Harrisburg (MDT) completed their ADS - B flight inspection on Jan 13 • Detroit (D21) Fusion evaluations were successfully completed on Feb 27. • Lafayette (LFT) started Fusion operations on Feb 4 . o Newly IOC'd Terminal sites are starting operational use of ADS - B as the priority sensor (above radar) while Terminal sites that reached IOC pri or are reconfiguring to do so. ERAM sites are beginning to promote ADS - B in sort cell rankings; this is a subtle change that takes adv antage of ADS - B when available. ZHU has been running in this co nfiguration since August 13. ZKC and Z LC promoted ADS - B on January 7. ZOB plans to pro mote ADS - B on Feb 18. • ADS - B Resiliency Assessment (ARA) o NATCA SBS team members participated in a t est of STARS, ERAM, and MEARTS. Observations were made at the Tech Center as the ADS - B network was subjected to simulate d jamming and spoofing events. The jam ming events were seen by the participants as similar in nature to any other surveillance loss. Spoofing events were more concerning as this introduced false indicati ons from avionics. The results of the test are being compiled for further discussion. • ADS - B System Wide Test o NATCA SBS team members traveled to Salt Lake City to observe a coord inated test of system outages. As individual Radio Station components were disabled, team members observ ed on STARS, ERAM, and ASDE - X. The objective of the test is to bet ter understand system responses, reduce operationally unnecessary alerts, and ensure automation systems are responding appropriately. Test results are being compiled for further discussion. • ASDE - X Tech Refresh: o All sites that originally received ASDE - X sig ned on to receive the Tech Refresh. The team hopes to have the final site completed in October. o EWR received an enhancement to the system that allowed them to notate construction zones on the display. Dan Hamilton is waiting to hear back from the facility . Assuming they are happy with that enhancement, the team will of fer that to other ASDE - X sites. o The ATSAP program is doing a great job of communicating problem reports with Dan Hamilton and NASE Engineering. This allows for the team to solve issues with g reater efficiency. • ASSC: o Surface Movement Radar (SMR) integration efforts continue in addition to a new wireless system for the remote units (RU s). Originally , the communication from the RU s to the system hub were wired. Though testing at SFO the technic al team discovered that wireless