A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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PHX PHX will be testing the latest build the wee k of 2/5 - 9 on the midnight shifts. We have two weeks of testing scheduled, during which time, the local team will make a determination of its stability and compat ibility with their operation. I f they approve, the build will be left running there. CLE Testing of the latest 5.3.0.3 build occurred during the midnight shifts the week of 1/2 - 1/6. The local team concluded that the build provided sufficient improvement in speed and stability over the previous build and has been running with no failures. E WR Nothing new . SFO Nothing new . LAS Nothing new . CLT CLT has had all of the training equipment installed in preparation for their upcoming training to begin in the March time frame. They are planning to begin operational use of the system sometime in June 2017. SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) No update on SVT this month. However, we are still awaiting a demo from the surface viewer, NAS Operational Dashboard (NOD), currently in use by the Command Center. A demo is expected in the next few weeks. Con cerns still loom about whether TFDM will be able to match NOD's current capabilities in the future. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MOD ERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR) Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Articl e 114 Representative for NATCA. His report to the membership is be low. During the past year we have accomplished many things as a team. Collaboration and coordination with the agency was unprecedented. I am so proud of the NATCA TAMR team. The hard work continues into 2017 and I am looking forward to the challenges th e New Year brings. Some highlights below in addition to what we are working currently. Segment One: All Segment One facilities have completed the transition from ARTS IIIe to STARS with the last facility (N90) as of May 20 16. Operational Readiness Decis ion (ORD) has been declared at 9 of the 11 facilities, PCT and N90 both will declare this year ending the S egment One portion completely. N90 does not want to declare ORD until AT Coach issues are addressed. This does delay FUSION because there is not eno ugh space in the equipment room until the old equipment is removed. PCT is awaiting an improvement in tracking issues due to radar placem ent and coverage using FUSION. Both issues will be discussed later. Segment Two: