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Eastern Time 6-Dec To register for a session, visit the NATCA Portal. Click "Events" on the menu bar on the home page then select the "2016 NATCA Edge Online Retirement Webinar" link. Follow the questions and directions from there. Personalized benefit estimate for participants paid for as an exclusive benefit for NATCA members. You will never be solicited or sold anything, ever! For any questions or problems with registration, please contact Grace Colby, NATCA Executive Administrative Assistant: (202) 220-9829 SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV-7): James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 48 Representative to the AJV-7 Office. His update for this report is below. AIMM Sig 3- Continued work on shortfall analysis and con ops review. ATPA/Wake RECAT- attend this meeting where discussion continued on aircraft ID's and who in the agency are responsible for keeping this list up to date. Terminal investment strategies- received a briefing from AJV-73 group manager on agencies terminal investment strategies mostly associated with TRACON evolution. Path Stretch- Path stretch evaluation at MITRE took place 7/12-14/2016. Thanks to the TBFM ops team and members of the ERAM NUT team for attending this important evaluation. QWERTY- Working with Arron Rose (TAMT) to finalize the effort to have these key boards tested. RTCA work on Advanced Interval Management- Attended a daylong meeting at RTCA discussing Advanced IM. ALPA was also in attendance. Main topic of discussion is the separation responsibility. NATCA and ALPA both agree that separation responsibility belongs to air traffic controllers. RTCA is meeting in Buffalo 8/2-5/2016 to continue the discussion. I will be attending via web ex. Surveillance strategy- Attended several work groups meeting along with Eric Labardini. The subject of these meeting is the RADAR availability in a post ADS-B NAS beginning in 2020. ERAM sector enhancement- Dialed into ERAW meeting to discuss and brief the prioritization process of sector enhancement. I briefed the FTR's on prioritization on 7/27. The FTR's will be taking on the task of prioritization of sector enhancement and have their information to me by August 17th. IM TSAS concept evaluation- July 26-27 MITRE held this and NATCA was well represented. The concept evaluation will continue for a 3 gathering in October. Thank you to Eric Owen for providing the needed SME's from your workgroup.