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Submitted by Mark McKelligan (ZBW) , National D&I Rep NATCA National Airspace: We continue to work with the agency on community outreach for all the PBN projects . F unding and a standardized process are the two major issues we are tryi n g to address. Community outreach was not part of the original process so the funding needed to accomplish it was not addressed when the projects started . T his may cause us to delay some projects. The RTCA NIWG should submit their recommendations to the FAA in June concerning community outreach; we hope to finalize the process after that. Jeff Woods (NATCA PMO Rep) and I are still working on the SEA Integration project. The RTCA NAC will be briefed in June along with the Western Service Area. We are hoping t o put a team together this summer that will refine the details of our process and identify all the key areas to be addressed. Submitted by Jim Davis , NATCA National Airspace Rep COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING (CDM): Ron Foley (ZOB) is the Article 48 Repres entative for CDM. Flight Evaluation Team (FET) - waiting on deliverables from N ASA research on RTA technology. Future Concept Team (FCT) - they have competing vendors trying to pitch about the same thing. Nothing significant has been concluded since the spring session back in April. Weather Evaluation Team (WET) - still refining the CAWS collaborative aviation weather statement and trying to figure out how to have it distributed elec tronically throughout the TMUs. The summer prime leave is about to star t , therefore CDM will be more telcon than anything until September. These telcons are designed to prepare for the new CDM season and communicate to the CSG what our new vision should be. Kyle Andrews, NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team (SCT) , participated in a telcon on May 24th to discuss strategies for accomplishing CSG Tasking 66 - Early TBFM Scheduling for Close - in Departures to LGA and to MS P. The following is his report. The SCT discussed specifying the details of accomplishing Tasking 66 "Ea rly TBFM Tasking Demonstration." Two options for initiating the Early Call For Release were considered - pilot initiated and ARTCC initiated. The SCT decided the focus would be on pilot initiated, since the electronic data transfer for ARTCC initiate d is not yet robust enough to support the program. The SCT also discussed at length the parameters for modeling. For the MSP test, it was decided to focus on only airports that are within the ZMP boundary. A concern with this approach is that four airports just outside the boundary, ORD, MSN, MKE, and MDW, are not going to be included in the modeling because they do not fall under TBFM