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day subgroup meeting on 4/19. Full CDM meeting on 4/20. The team will fly back on 4/21. Future FET meetings are not set for now and my not resume until the fall depending on tasking and budget. DATACOMM: Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the DataC omm Article 48 Representative. His report for this update is below. • The Controller Pilot Data Link Communica tions (CPDLC) Service has been deployed to 15 sites. o There are 41 sites in the waterfall that remain. This is no small feat in the FAA to be able to deploy a system ahead of schedule t hat is working for controllers. o This successful deployment is a direct r esult of the work of our NATCA core team. These individuals have been involved in the program for several years. Their work on training, requirements, trials activities, deployment strategy, and documentation development to name a few, are the main reasons the p rogram has had success to date. o These core team members also travel to each site to help the local 48 teams up level their TDLS processors and explain the functionality. These members remain engaged with the sites even after they leave. When question s or problems arise after they have left, they continue to stay in contact and offer any assistance they can. This is a 24/7 job and they give 110%. o The program could not have asked for a better team and the success of the program is a direct result of t he ir dedication and commitment. o The core team members are Ross Dickinson from MEM, Tom Gray from OAK, Ray Adams from EWR , and Ray Martinez (Supervisor TMC) from EWR. This group epitomizes the spirt of collaboration. • Jim McAllister (PCT) is also working Data Comm issues. His update is below. o Core Team Meeting: They had a slow week in the waterfall last week so Mr. McAllister took the opportunity to schedule a meeting of the core team (NATCA and management) in OKC. Here are the notes that were captured and forw arded to the PMO: - It is our recommendation to c ontinue these. A day a nd a half seemed to be perfect. We have picked a date in May (week of May 9 th ) to have another at the Tech Center. We also have a week in June slated for another one. - We found some opportunities to tighten up some of the communication during telcons (outage period cutting over to V12 is only about 20 minutes instead of the hour + that we have been telling the sites, etc). - Identified some STR Document differences (what is being sent to the sites vs . what IFCET has) that I need to work out with Hal . - Identified some distribution list errors still. Will work with Allen to start fresh and build new ones . - Some site confusion about up leveling both X - Terms at a facility on 1 st p rocessor turn up. Some sites only doing 1 of