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technological and procedural solutions to the Air Traffic Management (ATM) challenges faced by the National Airspace System (NAS). • NATCA has a CDM Rep and r eps on the CDM Stakeholder Group sub - teams, but no seat on the Stakeholder Group it self. o CDM traces its origins to September 1993, when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)/Airline Data Exchange (FADE) experiment highlighted the benefits of NAS users providing updated schedule information, allowing for improved decision making by Traffic Flow Managers. The CDM Roles and Responsibilities document – t he cornerstone of the CDM program – was agreed to by the FAA and flight ope rators in the spring of 1995. o According to the most recent the CDM Stakeholder Group Charter written in 2011, membersh ip is limited to qualified aviation related entities that meet the data - sharing criteria specified in the current FA A CDM Memorandum of Agreement. o Despite our participation in the Stakeholder Group sub - teams, NATCA ' s absence on the SG itself means we canno t effectively direct and ensure collaboration in all efforts of the SG such as modeling, etc. NATCA's inability to meet the data - sharing burden specified by the Charter has meant that NATCA does not have a seat at the table with the other Stake holders. Rec ently, an opportunity has arisen to seek a Charter re - write that would open CDM Stakeholder Group membership to non - data providing po tential members such as NATCA. A sub - team is currently working on this re - write project, and helping this group find a char ter solution that is NATCA - inclusive is a maj or goal of the next few months. VOR MINIMUM OPERATING NETWORK (MON): John Vogelsang (P31) is the Article 48 Represen tative on the VOR MON project. His update is below. • The VOR MON program is slowly moving forw ard. There have been quite a few differences of opinions when it comes how best to keep the locals in the loop as the VORs slated for discontinuance actually get close to getting turned off. The input from the field will be used to determine what procedure s associated with a VOR will need to be replaced by a PBN procedure and which can simply go away. • The program manager will be conducting an A7 briefing with NATCA on March 29. • There will be an SRM at NCT in early May concerning the discontinuance of ECA and MXW. • The next meeting of the program team will be in D . C . the first week in May. (Week Ending March 4, 2016) DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 48 Representative to DataComm. Mr. Geyer's update for the week is below.