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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIRSPACE TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATION 2 (ATD - 2): Pete Slattery (CLT) represents the membership as the Artic le 48 Representative for ATD - 2. His re port for this week is below. On Aug . 2nd and 3rd, NASA conducted the fifth ATD - 2 University session at the NASA Ames Research Center . Approximately 50 people representing FAA, airlines, and other industry personnel attended this session. Over this two - day event, the group was informed about the foundational 3T (TBFM/TFMS/TFDM) technologies that ATD - 2 is building upon, the foundational research that NASA is building upon (SCDM DRM, PDRC, SARDA) in ATD - 2 , and the 'what' and 'where' of ATD - 2. ATD - 2 development and operational experts spoke directly about their areas of expertise and involvement on the project. Briefings on the latest TBFM/Surface electronic integration, surface tactical departure scheduling, surface modeling, system analysis, field shadow eval uations , and ATD - 2 concept of use were presented. Collaborating team members from FAA ANG, FAA surface office, FAA CLT ATCT, NATCA, and Volpe participated via phone. I presented an hour - long overview of operations at CLT and gave NATCA ' s perspective on the project. On Aug. 23rd through 25th, NASA ATD - 2 personnel will return to Charlotte and continue their monthly Engineering Shadow Evaluati ons . The sessions will be held in the NASA CLT ATD - 2 Lab located in the old terminal building. The primary focus of thi s session is AAL ramp tools. Ramp operations will play a crucial role in any attempt at departure metering in the future. There will also be follow up sessions with CLT ATCT and TMU personnel. Future CLT Lab sessions will focus on data sharing among ATCT a nd AAL ramp. October shadow sessions are a follow - up to the prior data sharing discussions and also begin the dialog between ZDC and CLT ATCT about using the propos ed TBFM IDAC/Surface interface. NASA engineers and human factors personnel will also return to CLT tower and TRACON this week to continue their observation of both the TMU unit and surface operations at Charlotte. The specific information they are looking for is how APREQ release times are calculated and obtained, and how this information can be replicated and improved with various ATD - 2 system components. Development of ATD - 2 equipment and procedures is continuing at both the ATD - 2 lab in CLT and at the NASA Ame s Research Center . Everyone at CLT involved in these events is keeping NATCA ' s interes ts at the forefront of the input we provide and any decisions we make. COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING (CDM): Ron Foley (ZOB) is NATCA's Article 48 Repres entative to the CDM initiative. Mr. Foley provided the following information for this week. The groups are about to start meetings and meetings again next month with the exception of the FCT future concept team. Their meeting was cancelled due to lack of tasking. They will try to resume in October. Also, there has been some significant turnover in FCT on th e FAA and industry sides. This month will help them get back up to speed. SCT ' s meeting will be Sept 21 at CLT to get briefed on the progress of SCT Tasking 66 Early - Call - For - Release in MSP, and to continue work on SCT TASKING 69, SCT Engagement with NASA.