A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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• B - 1 Appendix B: Abbreviations and Acronyms: AFTN, AIDC, ANSP, APREQ, ATFM, ATS, FIR, ICAO, RVS M, SARP, TCP • D - 1 through D - 7 Appendix D: Developing LOAs with Foreign ANSPs (with attachments) Tech Center Meeting: Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) Demo: I attended this demonstration. Testing and demonstration of the divesting capabil ities in September prove d groundbreaking achievements. This demo allowed for the continuity of Operations of the world's largest airspace and providing for the additional possibilities of relocating to the Tech Center (WJHTC). There were management, tech o ps, PASS , and controllers from ZOA and ZAN . TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR ): Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Artic le 48 Representative for NATCA. Below is the report from the TAMR Project for the past month. Once again, a successful mon th for the TAMR program as we continue to de ploy STARS throughout the NAS. We welcomed Portland , Maine, Cedar Rapids , Iowa, and Eugene , Oregon to the ever - growing l ist of STARS ELITE facilities. The TAMR program reached its fiscal year milestones with the completion of Eugene. On another note, during the monthly Article 48 TAMR meeting , the program learned the Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) is havin g issues during DT&E and OT&E. This will become an issue once non - digitized ASR8 radars approach on the wate rfall of deployments. The TAMR PO also learned that the CTD program has already purchased the full order of this unproven product. One other issue is Tech Ops (TO) training for mainten ance and deployment of the CTD. The first site will be ROA (IOC schedule d 4/14/2017) and training is no nexistent at this time for TO. The TAMR program is working closely with the CTD program office to determine how soon training and d eployment of the CTD can occur. TAMR may have to adjust the wate rfall due to CTD. This does no t come as a surprise; NATCA has been the lone voice for the last six months warning the agency about CTD. STARS is converting to a new operating system ( LINUX) over the next two years. With this change comes a new simulation product from UFA, Inc. NATCA i s in the beginning stages of requ irements for the new AT Coach. Jeff Woods (NATCA PMO), Tom Adcock (NATCA Training), Bill Spence (TAMR Training), and Aaron Ros e are working with the TAMR PO. We have requested to be in on the ground floor starting with demo s from UFA, Inc. and Raytheon. Simplifying scenario generation and converting current scenarios are high on the list of requirements. New York TRACON (N90) tested a new version of AT Coach this month. TAMR and Raytheon provided th e fixes and support reque sted. One issue that was found during the test was something that previously worked. Raytheon has instructed UFA, Inc. to provide a fix, and this will be del ivered the second week of October. Second level engineering prior to delivery at N90 will test it h eavily. Chicago TRACON (C90) is still having iss ues with conflict alerts (CA). As reported last month, the Air Traffic Manager is blocking all adaptation driven fixes un til a Safety Risk is complete. NATCA TAMR is working closely with James Hall (FacRep) and Norval Holcolm (TAMR C90 SME) to alleviate any concerns the ATM may have.