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NOWIRJuly62016C

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4.0 Right sizing of Non-Cooperative (primary only). Two meetings have taken place 6/21 and 6/29. This work group is similar to the above more focused on what primary radar and identifying areas in the NAS where the radar foot print can be reduced. Eric Labardini is the POC for this I am supporting him. Terminal work package one (TWP-1). Attended two meetings to discuss the funding path for TWP-. The agency would like to move some capabilities to other programs. I have a meeting July 11th to get a briefing on the funding scenarios being discussed. I will report in my July update the outcome. I attended via conference call AJV-7 briefing of programs to ERAW. June 13-17 attended along with Tom Zarick and Eric Owens Arrival management integration. The meetings took place at MITRE and the purpose was to discuss all the programs associated with arrivals and how they can or cannot interact with each other. Airman Information Manual Modernization SIG (AIMM seg 3). AJV-7 did a site visit brief at the command center 6/22. Tony Smith NATCA Facility Representative attend with me. The purpose was to brief AIMM seg 3 capabilities. AIMM seg 3 con ops review. The month of June there have been two meeting inside AJV-7 to do con ops review. I have submitted my comments and we are working with MITRE to mitigate all comments from AJV-7 including NATCA comments. UAS- attended a conference call along with Steve Weidner to discuss beacon code 7400 requirements work being done. Steve had a conflict and I attend on his behalf AJV-7 scenario work for future demos. I have forwarded all notes from that meeting to Steve. Attended a meeting with Aaron Rose inside AJV-7 discuss a method for plain language documents. Aaron is the POC Attend meeting with Aaron Rose, Mitch Herrick, and Mickey Vitti with the TAMR program manager to discuss the decision the agency is making to put ATPA into the TAMR program. The agency asked if NATCA objected, we did not. ATPA will now fall under the TAMR program. Attended a meeting with for QWERTY, Aaron Rose and Mitch Herrick where present. The purpose of the meeting was to brief the TAMR program manager on the QWERTY test plan for his fall. We have a follow up meeting in 2 weeks. Met with ALPA along with Steve Weidner and Andy M. I forwarded a summary of the meeting to Jim Ullmann. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Interval Management and hear ALPA's concerns. NEXTGEN: Kevin McLaughlin (SCT) is the National NextGen Representative for NATCA. His report to the membership is below. On June 8, I represented NATCA at the NextGen Executive Board meeting. The Board consists of senior representatives from DOT, FAA, NOAA, NASA, DOD, Homeland Security, White House Office of Science and Technology, Director of National Intelligence, and the InterAgency Planning Office. The Interagency Planning Office for NextGen executes recommendations of the Senior Policy Committee and the NextGen Executive Board. It provides an environment for transparent multi-agency coordination and engagement through work groups, meetings and workshops; integrates NextGen multi-agency research and development requirements and facilitates transfer between agencies by enabling Research Transition Teams and work groups. Topics briefed at this meeting included future NASA budget requests and Agency Cyber-security. The White House Office of Management and Budget has informed NASA that a request was sent to Congress to dramatically increase the funding levels provided to NASA Aeronautics over the next ten years. If enacted by Congress, the increase would raise NASA Aeronautics baseline FY 2016 funding of 633 million dollars

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