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SAFETY AND TE CHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT A IR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Repr esentative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below. Terminal work package one is moving toward transfer fro m AJV - 7 to the program office. M ITRE will be holding four d emos between April and August. The Terminal Chi team and TAMR SMEs will attend the demos . AIMM S ig 3 : The concept of operations operational scenarios now include a pathway for controllers to access digital information from sourc es other than E - RIDS. The purpose was to provi de access for facility training, f or example , studying LOAs/SOP s and maps. Advanced - IM : RTCA met in Henderson, N ev., the week before CFS. I att ended via online video access. One area of interest for NATCA is t he path moving forward regarding a separation standard for paired approaches. I wi ll keep the membership briefed as this concept matures. Remote Tower : The SRM process began this month with three days of dat a review from passive testing. The SRM panel sta rts April 4th and concludes on April 12th. Terminal C hi: I pa rticipated in a joint interview with Toby Jones , my counterpart on this team . The interview will be in an upcoming addition of FocusFAA. The T erminal C hi team will be at MITRE April 11 - 13th part icipating in a de mo for Terminal work package 1. Long - Range Radar : T he workgroup is scheduling meetings for April to validate a need for or against the continued use of long - range radar post - 2020. CAR for aircraft types was ans wered at the first of the y ear. The ERC accept the CAP. MITRE is scheduling a 3T demo for this summer. I am working with our reps from TBFM, TDFM , and PMO to get a time all can attend. Offshore Precipitation Capability (OPC) : Funding source identified. We are waiting for funding t o actually appear. Hope to have back into the facilities before hurricane season. COLLAB ORATIVE DECISION MAKING (CDM) Kyle Andrews (ORD) is the NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team (SCT). Mr. Andrews forwarded the information below for the mem bership. Kyle Andrews, NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team, participated in a SCT telcon earlier this month. Representatives from SWA, DAL, AAL, Airports Surface Efficiency Office, NASA, and TFDM attended. Here is his report : Continuing wit h CSG Tasking 75 "TFDM/Industry Engagement throughout T FDM Development and Deployment," Michael Huffman, Project Manager for TFDM, gave a briefing detailing monetized benefits for the surface portion of TFDM. The focus near term was in airline savings thro ugh more efficient release programs, which should be easily implemented if electronic data transfer is in place.