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These chances are necessary for the deployment of DataC omm and other NextGen programs. The first phase of Airborne Reroute and Pre - Departure Reroute (ABRR/PDRR) d eployment will begin Jan 23rd. Any route segment that is conformant with an active Traff ic Management Initiative will be indicated by chevro ns in the flight plan readout. This segment is protected and should not be altered. Full ABRR/PDRR deployment will begin when ARTCCs arena EAD6002. The Na tional User Team (NUT) held its quarterly meeting in Austin Dec . 12 - 16 . Facility Tech Reps, National Reps, 2nd Level Engineering, Leidos , and contract support attended. The following provides a synopsis of the meeting : Data Com m Briefings The Data Com m team briefed on the following topics: NSDA, status of S1P1, proposed S2P2 waterfall, adaptation for EAE100, procedures , and training. Airborne Re - Route (ABRR) Members of the ABRR task team briefed on the following: recent testing at ZLC, ZMP , and ZDV, training for TMU SMEs and status of ELMS training, sugge sted local procedures, conformant routes and an outlook for deployment. Site testing went well and accomplished what was planned. The trial run of the SME workshop also went well and training begins in January. The AT ELMS course has been delivered to th e sites. The suggested local procedur es were reviewed and discussed. Conformant routes will be turned on nationally on 1/23 and a briefing item for this has been sent to the sites. The deployment schedule is dependent on the field delivery of EAD600 and the dates that each site comes up on the system. TBFM SIG 22514 Reject Messages The task team briefed on new reject messages that will be sent from TFMS to ERAM and provided formatting for the messages that will be displayed to the user. A problem statement w ill be written for team review. NEXRAD Outage A new problem statement has been written to provide notification of NEXRAD outages to controllers and will be discussed during the next team telcon. Path Stretch The task team presented slides and a video tha t de monstrated this new capability. The intent of the tool is to provide the user with both a speed and off cours e vector to accomplish spacing. A draft use case has also been created and sent to the team for review. WARP Anomaly Steve Snyder briefed the team on a WARP issue that had been re ported recently by a few sites. It involves the differences in weather depiction be tween the CWIS and AT WARP SMG. AT weather has never been provided data below 30 dbz whi le CWIS shows to a lower level. The effect of th is difference was areas of weather shown on CWIS wh ich were not on the AT display. All of the weather in q uestion was of light intensity. Steve also stressed that all WARP issues should be reported first to the WARP/Harris Help Desk as ERAM only displays w hat is sent from WARP.