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ER 159834 GIMS Display of Transition Speed NAS VOICE SWITCH (NVS) Jon Shedden (ZFW) represents the NATCA membership as their Article 114 Representative to the NVS project. His report is below. NAS Voice System (NVS) demo labs are currently running on Build 12B. Harris continues to focus on stability and fixing bugs as we lead up the FAA Stability Demonstration. The Stability Demonstration is the precursor to the beginning of the FAA's Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), and is scheduled for the week of Nov. 28. FAT was scheduled to begin in November 2016, but it has been delayed until February 2017. Harris also continues to work on feature integration. The NVS Feature Checkout is scheduled to occur the week of Nov. 14 at the Tech Center. Chris Lloyd (ZDC), NVS Training Lead, reviewed the 50 percent Operator manual and the 50 percent Supervisor manual. We are also reviewing the Tech Ops Task and Skills Analysis (TASA) as it relates to the Configuration Specialist user role. Mr. Shedden was in Anchorage and Kenai the week of October 17th to work on NVS requirements for Alaska FSS. It was a very productive meeting as we came away with low-level requirements necessary to deploy NVS to the AFSS Parent facilities. Mr. Shedden was also in Seattle the week of October 24th briefing the three key sites on system configuration and the collection process. Mr. Shedden will be at the Tech Center November 15-18 for NVS Feature Checkout, and November 28-December 2 for the NVS Stability Demonstration. Mr. Shedden will be in Seattle December 4-8 working with the NVS Test Team and the 3 Key Sites to begin the process of developing test scenarios for Operational Test and Evaluation. Next Generation Air-Ground Communication (NEXCOM) continues deployment of new CM300/350 V2 radios to terminal facilities across the country. Deployment is going well. NAS Voice Recorder Program (NVRP) is the replacement for existing NAS voice recorders (DALR, DALR2, DVRS, DVR2). The Program Office presented to the JRC and received approval to proceed to Final Investment Analysis. Key site for NVRP will be Seattle Center in the 2018 time frame. The Headset Splitter final design has been completed. The splitter, which is designed to allow three or four headsets to be connected to existing voice switches, should be produced and deployed later this year. A SRM Panel was completed on July 19th and 20th. The splitter will also be a part of the headset contract and may be ordered in the same manner as headsets. Air Traffic Services is attempting to obtain funding for deployment of the splitter. Grand Rapids Tower/TRACON (GRR) is reporting multiple issues with their aging voice switch. There's one outstanding issue where a RADAR site is causing interference in the Tower Cab. That issue continues to be worked. Waterloo Tower/TRACON (ALO) is reporting issues with the phone system used operationally in the tower. One of the issues has been resolved (inaudible phone) while the second one remains in work. Mr. Shedden is participating in the rewrite of FAA Order 6510.4 (A/G Order). The last version was written in 1980. There are both new and existing requirements in the order

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