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Spouses and significant others are also invited to attend. Please ensure that you add them to the registration when asked if you will be bringing a guest. Please try to register three weeks prior to the seminar. Walk - ins a re permitted to attend as long as they can provide their membership ID number. However, you will be unable to obtain a benefits estimate at the seminar. For any questions or problems with registration, please contact Grace Colby, NATCA Executive Administra tive Assistant: (202) 220 - 9829, gcolby@natcadc.org . We are now offering Career Optimization and Retirement Education (C.O.R.E.) Seminars in many cities! These seminars are geared towards employees with 0 - 15 years o f service who want to maximize their retirement benefits and plan for financial stability in retirement. Log in to the Portal today to see which cities are offering this great new program. NATCA EDGE - Designed exc lusively for NATCA members! Can't get to a n in - person retirement seminar? We'll bring the seminar to you! Presenting an all - new, flexible access, web - based session of our popular retirement benefits seminar: May 26; 10 a . m . - 5 p . m . EDT July 12; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. PDT Oct. 18; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. CDT Dec. 6; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST To register for a session, visit portal.natca.net . Click "Events" on the menu bar on the home page, then select the "2016 NATCA Edge Online R etirement Webinar" link. Follow the questions and directions from there. P ersonalized benefit estimate for participants paid for a s an exclusive benefit for NATCA members. You will NEVER be solicited or sold anything, EVER! For any questions or problems wi th registration, please c ontact Grace Colby , NATCA Executive Administrative Assistant : (202) 220 - 9829 , gcolby@natcadc.org . SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT ( Week Ending March 11, 2016) ENROUTE A UTOMATION MODER NIZATION (ERAM): Julio Henriques (ZNY) lea ds the ERAM efforts for NATCA. This week's update is provided by Dan Mullen (ZID). • Much of the last four weeks has been dedicated to work on a backup Flig ht Data system for ERAM (CFDM). o The task team spent several days in the lab testing different outages. o They also worked with Lockheed and SLE to define requirements. o The National User Team (NUT) is still discussing what functionality the backup will need. • The NUT held their quarterly meeting the week of Feb 29 th . o The DataComm team briefed on training needs and different schedule options were discussed. o A problem with correctly displaying WARP data was identified. Certain filter settings can cause weather to not be correct ly displayed to the