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ZMA, ZHU, and ZJX. This product will also have use for ZNY ' s oceanic sectors as with expanded coverage it will be able to show the track southbound out of NYC and eventually possibly the Atlantic tracks. o OPC has undergone a couple of validation reviews by the tech center and a third party. The reviews have come back very positive and that the product should be pursued for enhancements with the goal o f going to glass. There are some issues that have to be worked, like since it is not RADAR can we use it like RADAR or will it have to be displayed and called differently than NEXRAD ? o Two tabletop exercises where conducted at ZHU and ZMA with controllers from the oceanic sectors, TM C s, and a FLM at each facility. The tabletop was very low fidelity using OPC screen captures and track data overlaid to simulated the prod uct on ERAM. The participants w ere all very positive about the product even to the point of asking how soon it could be on glass. The comments all included a possible workload increase due to having to issue the weather to aircraft where they have not had too in the past. Even with this comment they all said OPC would be a very welcome additi on since it would allow the controllers to be proactive instead of reactive. • Common Support Services - Weather (CSS - WX) o The program held a Maintenance and Control ( M & C ) CHI meeting last week with both Harris and Raytheon to start the interface developmen t. The group included tech ops personnel from Network Enterprise Operations (NEO), second level engineering, and an automation specialist from ZLA. The group looked and made comments on the first cut that both Harris and Raytheon made of the M & C display. H arris is using one that looks like the new WARP M&C display and Raytheon presented a similar concept. The group did recommend that the displays look and act the same as much as possible. The vendors both stated they would try within the bounds of the requi rements documents for the respective programs. • Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) WARP failed factory acceptance testing in February and will be rerunning FAT starting this week. The update that was scheduled for deployment late June is now pushed to mid to late August. This update is the new mosaic for ERAM. The ERAM mosaic is undergoi ng it s meteorological evaluation and everything looks great. The parts that failed FAT had to do with a new M&C interf ace and a new gui for the CWSUs .