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Evansville (EVV) Fusion OSD on March 8 Harrisburg (MDT) Fusion OSD on March 8 o On March 3, ZHU enabled the e xpande d Gulf of Mexico ADS - B Radios. These three r adios are based in Mexico and help fill in surveillance coverage for the south ern part of the GOMEX airspace. This was a significant goal for the SBS PO in FY16. • ASDE - X Tech Refresh: o In mid - February, there was a significant system outage due to a GPS time server issue within the system. Dan Hamilton is working with the system support team in Oklahoma City t o determine why the outage occurred, and ensure this issue does not happen again in the future. • ASSC: o ASSC Continues moving forward in a positive direction. The team is still on track to IOC the system at SFO, (the key site) in mid October of this year. CLE will follow in early 2017. o Outreach briefings took place in l ate February at MCI and CVG. Thank you to both facilities for their hospitality! An outreach briefing is scheduled for MSY the week of March 28th. • CLT WAM: o Air Traffic Cadre training was completed on Feb 24. o A regression flight inspection is planned for April 5 - 7. o Per agreement between CLT and the SBS PO, the current targeted IOC date for WAM at CLT is May 24, 2016. • Communicating for Safety: o SBS PO and NATCA SBS personnel will once again support a booth at CFS. The emphasis continues to be on ADS - B but we will have personnel on hand to an swer Fusion, ASSC, Veh icle ADS - B or other questions. Please stop by with your questions! • FMA and Fusion: o A kickoff meeting for the effort was held on Feb 17. o An SRM Panel is pl anned for the week of April 25. Participants from multiple FMA sites are antic ipated to attend. o If all holds to schedule, then an operational start at a keysite could occur by June 2017 with other site s to follow shortly afterward. The effort is projected to take 18 months or less and cost is estimated at $1.45 million. • Fusion: o NAT CA SBS supported the R3 Drop 5 OT& E event at SoCal TRACON (SCT). There has been a significant amount of progress made on identified anomalies. However, the airspace continues to be a difficult radar environment and long term surveillance solutions are ne eded. o There is an anomaly at EVV on their TDW that will be investigated this week. The Fused target symbol enlarges abnormally in a TraCab configuration at a 60nm range. More information to follow. • GIM - S: o ZLC lab adapt ation design complete at WJHTC. Adapt ation delivered to facility support string for further testing . o ZDV Pr ocedural development completed. Training nearing completion. IOC on track for March 14 th . o ZSE lab adaptation design demo completed. • Merging & Spacing