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National Office Week in Review: May 18, 2016

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expedite divestment procedures. The OCCO's en route and termin al tech ops SMEs were present. Terminal facilities are the next step. • Order J.O. 7210.3 - Facility Operation and Administration, Chapter 17 - Section 23: Contingency Plan Support Syste m (CPSS) is currently being revised by the OCCO with support of the OSG S MEs and our Command Center SME. • NEXT STEPS: June Planning Meeting : Because OCCO's work crosses all AT Services, all Services are being notified of our next endeavor. This next work is associated with assessing the current capability of an en route facility in supporting the outage of an underlying Tier 1 TRACON ATC - 0 events . Once ERAM capabilities are determined and technical requirements verified, we should be able to define a gap to refine requirements and associated costs to support executive decision - making . The initial focus is to bring the subject matter experts together from System Operations, Air Traffic, Technical Operations, Program Management Organization (2nd Level Engineeri ng), Mission Support (OCP Field Team) and Safety and Technical Training to a planning meeting in Atlanta to accomplish the following: o Create methodology to assess the throughput of En Route facilities in support of a Tier 1 TRACON ATC - Zero Event . o Develop e xecution strategy (i.e. logistics, funding, reporting and schedule) . o Identify next steps, i.e., Data Collection/validation Baseline comparison Executive Decision Points GAP Analysis PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO): Jeff Woods (I90) represents the bargaini ng unit as the Article 48 Representative to the PMO. Below is Mr. Woods' report to the membership. • Ops Integration o Working with the FAA on an ops integration plan to help better align deployments across multiple programs o An example of this would be PBN, E RMA, STARS , and TBFM o Working on a plan that would identify all the programs that a single program would affect with its deployment • LAX Surface o Working with the AJR (Surface Office) and MIT Lincoln Labs on a study for LAX surface movements • ATPA Training o Wor king with AJT and AJI to develop a standardized training for ATPA o Aircraft Type Recognition within Automation o Working with STARS and ERAM to develop a plan for standardizing aircraft types within automation • MITRE o Working on HITLS and demos for the followi ng projects o Lateral path stretch o Interval management and Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSAS) • Automated Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS)

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