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• NASA engineers have been working with American Airlines personnel on impor ting data streams for use with ATD - 2. The data the airline is providing very closely resembles data that will eventually be available via TFMS and is nec essary for both ATD - 2 and TFDM. o This is aircraft specific state/status data that all airlines have agre ed to provide to the FAA for inclusion into future TFMS data sets. This data will then be distributed to other traffic management Decision Support Systems in order to achieve the goal of instituting departure metering. o This is a key step in the ATD - 2 proce ss and NASA is going about obtaining the data directly from the dominant carrier at CLT since the time frame for its availability from the TFMS system is still uncertain. • A user working group meeting will take place during the first week of May at CLT. The group will include the traffic management units from ZTL, ZDC, and CLT, as well as other stakeholders. The focus will be on roles and responsibilities as well as incorporating ATD - 2 into the normal workflow. It will also give personnel from other location s a chance to view the challenges faced on the surface at CLT and how the flow of traffic into and out of CLT is affected by traffic management initiatives. • An ATD - 2 University (ATD - 2 U.) session was held at NASA ' s North Texas Research facil ity (NTX) last month. o It was attended by members from FAA headquarters including the Surface Efficiency Office and AJV - 7 (Termina l Requirements and Validation). Another session will be held during the third week of May. These sessions help elevate the understanding of th e ATD - 2 and Surface Departure Metering concept. RUNWAY SAFETY: Ric Loewen (DFW) is the Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) Representative and also the Article 48 Representative fo r Runway Status Lights (RWSL). Bridget Gee (DFW) will be replacing Mr. Loewen i n the near future a nd the transition has started. Below is Mr. Loewen's report to the membership. • New NATCA Runway Safety Representative Named: o Bridget Gee from DFW has been selected by the NEB to replace Ric Loewen as the Runway Safet y and RWSL represent ative. Ms. Gee is a n 8 - year CPC , having worked at SAT and now DFW for the past four years. She is the NATCA lead on the DFW LSC, has been supporting runway safety as a point of contact to the agency in the S outhwest R egion, and representing NATCA at DFW's LRSATs as well as previously at SAT. o Mr. Loewen and Ms. Gee will be working together for a whi le to ensure a smooth hand off. o Ms. Gee has a bachelor's degree in a eronautical s cience with emphasis on p rofessional p ilot, m inor in a ir t raffic m anagement, m ino r in meteorology, and is also a commercial and multi - engine rated pilot. o Ms. Gee's email address is rsat - rwsl@natca.net . • Runway Status Lights (RWSL): o JFK will IOC the final portion of their system whil e we are in Las Vegas for CFS. The JFK system has been offline for several weeks in order to tie in the remaining fixtures a nd to trouble shoot a problem. Hopefully the upgrades will be installed and the whole system brought up next week.