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Academy training - I have worked closely with Jason to scope out an outline of what substance we would want delivered to new hires at the academy. We will coordinate with AJI-2 and the Academy to see how this can work. Our vision would be to deliver a Human Performance module that includes HF, Fatigue and Health and Wellness. It would be delivered through the lens of how do you survive not only the training process, but also a 30-year career in ATC. HF Integration - One of Jason's goals in building the HPT has been to have a central clearinghouse for all HF activities in the Agency. Currently there is HF research activities being conducted by CAMI as well as the Tech Center in Atlantic City. Our office is more operationally centered, but there can be problems when the PMO, Requirements and Research activities are not coordinated or at least informed. I am slowly meeting all the people and different organizations and requesting to be informed when HF activities are taking place. I will be visiting OKC and ACY after the holidays. I am also meeting with our respective reps from each office and making an effort to coordinate with them when we have HF activities and/or issues. HF roundtable - This is a group that contains all the HF managers across the Agency. The intent is to prioritize HF activities based on an ever-decreasing pot of money. I attended the first meeting two weeks ago and was impressed with the level of cooperation. Health & Wellness: We are working hard to get the ATC survival guide completed. It is still in very early stages right now, but the hope is to have a product by April. Health & Wellness professional - The office has been given tentative authority to hire another professional for the office. I have requested the person have a background in Health & Wellness activities. With any luck we should advertise this after the holidays and be able to pick someone up by 3rd qtr. Fatigue ZOA - Jeff Richards, Erina and I participated in the Article 7 briefing for the actigraphy study. We should be starting this after the holidays as well. There were no major issues. We insisted that the tracking form that will be used to cross reference the actigraph watches be destroyed before the data is delivered to the HPT. I will be on leave from Wednesday 12/21 until 1/4. I will still answer phone call and email, but will be at home in the Keys. INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS-R) Richie Smith (N90) leads NATCA's efforts on the IDS-R project as the Article 114 Representative. Below is Mr. Smith's report: After the testing failure of the new NIDS operating system in November new test dates have been set for the week of January 9, 2017. Included in this test suite will be a new NIDS build (3.6.1) containing fixes to memory and page freeze issues being experienced at such facilities as SCT, I90 and F11. Some of these problems have been linked to the amount of pages that can be stored in the browser history, which is utilized by the "back button" function. Others are a bit more complex on the first view but simple after analysis. For example, in the SCT network certain sites have been experiencing workstation freezing and very slow page loads.

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