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specifically asked for my assistance on this working group due to the need of air traffic experience. Work is ongoing. ICAO - Runway Safe ty Action Plan Working Group – This group is promoting the implementation of strategies to reduce the number and severity of runway safety - related accidents and incidents on an on - going basis. I am on three subgroups within this working group in which the majority of our efforts right now are in data analysis. SURVEILLANCE BROADCAS T SERVICES (SBS) OFFICE Eric Labardini (ZHU) is the Article 114 Re presentative 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 114 Rep, Craig Bielek (A90), Dan Hamilton (SFO), National Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC) Rep, Andrew Stachowiak (I90), and Tom Zarick (ZDV), National Interval Management Rep . ADS - B: As of February 1, 2017, the number of Rule Compliant ADS - B Out in the U.S. reached 24,859. ADS - B In equipped aircraft reached 22,812. Current equipage levels are falling short of the projected numbers needed to reach the Jan 1, 2020 deadline to equip w ith ADS - B. Avionics Installation capacity NAS - wide could also be exceeded t he longer users wait to equip. So far, the Agency has been cl ear that the deadline is firm. Time will tell, as the deadline looms closer. Most, if not all, a ir c arriers have provid ed the Agency with a plan to meet the Jan 1, 2020 deadline. The military, as previously released in the press, expects to be unable to meet this deadline for several versions of their fighter and older aircraft. They are working with the Agency on a compr omise that requires DOD radar availability at key sites to be identified. GA equipage is a harder question and being carried as a h igh r isk by the SBS Program Office. Increased avionics availability and competition among manufacturers continues to bring t he overall cost for GA users down. In addition, the Agency has initiated another rebate program and it is showing some interest, but not as high as expected. The SBS PO very rough estimate of avionics installation capacity nationwide is 50,000 aircraft pe r year. Users that wait too close to 2020 may find that the capacity for insta llation falls short of demand. Facilities may see these GA ADS - B operators flying more check flights as they attempt to validate their installations and claim the rebate. An iss ue not screened by automation systems but an important assumption for future ADS - B dependent applications is the br oadcast call sign of the user. ADS - B sends this information to automation systems for comp arison to the filed call sign. When a mismatch occu rs a Call Sign Mismatch (CSMM) alert can be generated. Data from ZAN showed over 2100 CSMM alerts were generated i n just one month (March 2016). This prompted SBS Article 48 to recommend all MEA RTS sites disable CSMM alerts. MEARTS sites can do the s ame wi th Build 16.01 or later. In addition, SBS Article 48 initiated a survey of all ERAM sites to ga uge the extent of the problem. The number of