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• Advanced Methods - the sit e visits conclude in New York. Thank you to the membership at ZNY and N90 for providing a great deal of valuable input. The TMU membership provided a great deal of insight tha t will go toward making the con cept controller user friendly. • Surveillance Strategy Workgroup - attending this workgr oup with Eric L our ADS - B rep. The purpose is to identify what part of ground based radar needs to remain in place to provide for a backup to space based. This work group is in the very early stages and will keep the membership up to date moving forward. • Terminal CHI Team - The agency is preparing to send ov er a request in the next week. Once hat request and our LR team work out the details I will have a better idea of wh at to report to the membership. AIRSPACE TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATION 2 (ATD - 2): Pete Slattery (CLT) represents the membership as the Artic le 48 Representative for ATD - 2. His report for this week is below. • On April 18 and 19, NASA and ATD - 2 industry partner American Airlines, provided a project overview and status update briefing to the Flow Evaluation Team (FET) and the Surface CDM Team (SCT) at American Airlines Opera tions Center in Fort Worth, TX. The CDM group was holding their annual Spring General Meeting at DFW so due to the proximity of this event to NASA ' s North Texas Research facility (NTX), NASA took the opportunity to share ATD - 2 information with this part of the stakeholder community. • Kyle Andrews (ORD), our NATC A representative on S - CDM , was in attendance. The briefings were well received and a number of the participants expressed an interest in further engagement on ATD - 2. • The NASA ATD - 2 team will be conducting HITLs with ramp tower personnel at NASA Ames the we ek of April 25th. NATCA does not have a presence at this event, but will receive a briefing on the outcome. Since tighter integration between non - movement area and movement area activities is one of the key goals of - ATD - 2, we will have NATCA controllers p articipating in future HITLs tha t involve all relevant parties. • On April 15th the NASA Integrated Communication (NICS) circuit to CLT was established. This major step will allow NextGen SWIM data, and other important data feeds, to connect to the ATD - 2 sy stem at CLT. The next step in the data connection process is onsite installation of the ATD - 2 equipment at the lab located in the old terminal at the CLT airport. This is currently planned for May 3 rd. • The CLT airport has provided office space in the old terminal, which will serve as the NASA laboratory for ATD - 2 testing and training. The laboratory will serve as the primary location for training and shadow evaluation activities by both air line ramp personnel and air traffic controllers. CLT surface team members can expect to spend significant amounts of time working with NASA engineers a t the lab. • On May 3rd and 4th NASA will be conducting a User Group meeting in CLT. This meeting is inten ded for actual users of the system, controllers, ramp/airline personnel, and airport operators. Several controllers from CLT's bargaining unit will be participating in this forum. We will all ensure that controller input and interests are at the forefront of any decisions that come out of this meeting.