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the number of A's and B's we currently have do not warrant another meeting at this point. Most likely, we will continue with our next meeting late January or February. BNA CAR: BNA due to the airport being expanded twice since the control tower was opened in 1981. The expansions have resulted in multiple runway and exit areas having limited or completely obstructed views from the tower. The inability to observe aircraft exiting the runways, or holding in position makes it difficult for BNA controllers to effectively control traffic. The CAR was submitted to the ERC 10/6. The ERC did not concur. This effort is ongoing with a new due date of 11/30. Timely Airport Maintenance Notification CAR: This CAR was in briefed on June 21st. Research and outreach are currently being conducted. This CAR is also part of the Top 5 additionally two SRM panels will be commenced this month. Work is ongoing. Airport Construction CAR – The RTCA Airport Construction Task Group's final report is with AJV. I am currently awaiting review and commit by AJV. Once completed, we will be able to finalize our recommendations. Runway Safety Call 2 Action Communication Initiative – Runway Safety Best Practices Workgroup – We identified and reviewed Runway Safety best practices and will make recommendations for formalization where appropriate. The group in collaboration with the Runway Safety group and the Runway Safety Council will formalize the "best practices". I sit as the co-lead for this workgroup. Work is ongoing. Runway Incursion Prevention Shortfall Analysis (RIPSA)- RIPSA is funded by the Runway Safety group. This Runway Incursion Reduction Program (RIRP) is tasked to investigate, develop, test, evaluate, and deploy low cost runway incursion prevention technologies. This is the result of the NTSB recommendation to "require, at all airports with scheduled passenger service, a ground movement safety system that will prevent runway incursions; the system should provide a direct warning capability to flight crews." Currently, research is being conducted for 15 airports without any surface surveillance system, which should be completed at the beginning of 2017. The hope is to have a low cost technology solution to reduce the risk of runway incursions and be production ready within the next 3 years. NTSB – the NTSB is commencing a special investigation into runway incursions. The plan is to develop a Special Investigation Report (SIR) initiating a comprehensive discussion on runway safety in the National Airspace System (NAS) focusing on runway incursion cause, effect and mitigation. The report would include an overview of runway incursion history, mitigation efforts to date, areas of concern, and recommendations and suggestions to reduce the frequency and severity of systemic NAS wide and airport specific runway incursions. As the NATCA runway safety and RWSL subject matter expert, the NTSB as requested my yet to be defined support for this project. ICAO – ADOP (Aerodrome Design and Operations Panel) – Representatives from around the globe met for the ADOP/2 panel last week in Montreal, Canada. We discussed over 400 pages of documentation. There were many topics covered such as and not limited heliport design and operations, assessment and reporting of runway surface conditions, international provisions addressing ground handling, aerodrome pavement management, enhancement of airport capacity, the 2nd edition of PANS- Aerodrome Doc 9981, and aerodrome emergency response. I am working on a detailed report, which will be provided with in the next week. SURVEILLANCE BROADCAST SERVICES (SBS) OFFICE Eric Labardini (ZHU) is the Article 114 Representative to the SBS Office. Below is the update for SBS. The NATCA Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) team includes: Eric Labardini (ZHU), National SBS Article 48 Rep, Craig Bielek (A90), Dan Hamilton (SFO), National

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