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Conduct follow - on meeting to discuss pilot/controller phraseology for Initial Services. Discuss altimeter avionics message display at next DCIT. Will include photos from different avionics. Use one of the subsequent demos to conduct a realistic scenario with both controllers and pilots to simulate different re - route scenarios. Discuss adding an indication of open - ended PIDs at the first intra - facility eligibility transfer in use case team m eetings and discuss at DCIT. Discuss concatenating altimeter uplink with Monitor TOC in use case team meetings and discuss at DCIT. Scrub list of "canned" free text messages at DCIT 54. Avionics team will provide a standard flow of Initial Services CPDL C messages with screen shots to operators. There is another meeting scheduled with the operators at the end of the month. 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) Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Dry Run is now scheduled to begin the second week in April. FAT is now scheduled to begin the week of July 18th. Harris is assembling the 255 position ATC Voice Node (AVN) for FAT, and it is almost complete. They also continue development of the formal test procedures, which will be run on the FAT system. Mr. Shedden and Christopher Lloyd (ZDC) recei ved informal delivery of the 90 percent complete operator and supervisor manuals. Fo rmal delivery will occur just prior to the beginning of FAT Dry Runs. Mr. Shedden was at the Harri s test facility in Melbourne, Fla. the weeks of Feb . 6th and 27th. Next Generation Air - Ground Communication (NEXCOM) continues deployment of new CM300/350 V 2 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, leading up to the Final Investment Decision. Key site for NVRP will be Seattle Center in the 2018 time frame. Grand Rapids Tower/TRACON (GRR) is reporting multiple issues with their aging voice switch. There ' s one out standing issue where a RADAR site is causing interference in the t ower c ab. That issue continues to be worked.