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• AJV - 7 will be conducting an Operational Safety Assessment OSA March 16 - 17. NA TCA is participating with 3 SME s attending. • They have four site visits scheduled in March and April: D10, ZFW, N90 and ZNY. Thank you to the FacReps for the help in scheduling and providing POC s for each visit. o The purpose of the visit is to observe TMU in order to better understand the roles/responsibilities and how the utilize current equipment. o The visit will help build a shortfall analysis and concept of operations for a future program called Advanced Methods. • Mr. Keith attended ERAW meetings 2/8 - 11. AJV - 7 took an action item to prepa re a briefing for next ERAW meeting March 8 - 10. AIRSPACE: Jim Davis (PCT ) leads NATCA's Airspace Team. Below are reports from Mr. Davis and various Airspace Team Leads. • Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation o Conducted our fourth official Out reach meeting on the project. We started with the Airport Division office and then with the Cleveland Airport Systems. The Great Lakes Regional Administrator has been with us helping us locally with the two meeting at Detroit and Cleveland. Still awaiting direction nationally for leadership as to not interfere with the NEPA proce ss and jeopardize the project. o We continue to evaluate, justify and/or amend procedures identified to be outside of criteria. There have been a series of v ideo meeting s with the a ff ected facilities and we are planning a meeting in mid - M arch to close all of the items with all of a ffected parties. The justification comes because we have to work within our boundaries set for Metroplex. This can be a ffected by , but not limited to: Class B, Service to surrounding airports, surrounding facilities and limitations of regulations/criteria. All agreements will be document ed to the 100% design packages. o We briefed externally to the National Collaborative F orum at the command center on the projec t and our work to start TBFM for the Detroit Wayne airport in late 2016. There are issues still unresolved TBFM nationally that will affect its roll out. We also m et with DoD air traffic controllers and base staff on transferring airspace from ZOB to Selfr idge ANGB for their Approach Control. There is a south portion and a north portion and adjustments would be made between D21 for the change in arrival paths in DTW. We are moving ahead on the Southern portion/D21 in April 2017 and they need to resolve reso urce issues for the northern ai rspace prior to setting a date. o Report submitted by Don Ossinger (ZBW), CLE/DTW Article 48 D & I liaison . • Florida Metroplex Outreach o The outreach effort will begin in early March with the Regional Administrator meeting with t he impacted Core 30 airport directors for a high level discussion on Next Gen. This will lay the groundwork for the Outreach Team to come in and begin to discus the proposed changes in detail. The Outreach Team is continuing to familiarize themselves with t he current and proposed procedures for all impacted airports. Additional ly ,