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memo governing tone incidences from 2007. A workgroup has been formally established to address the number and severity of tone incidences. RUNWAY SAFETY Bridget Gee (DFW) is NATCA's Runway Safety Action Team (RSAT) Representative. She also ser ves as the Article 114 Representative to the Runway Status Lights (RWSL) Program. Below is her report to the membership. Runway Status Lights (RWSL): ORD: Being conducted in three phases: Phase 1, Runway 10L/28R, was turned online April 27, 2016. Phase 2 and 3 are scheduled to come online 2017. Phase 1 (10L/28R): ORD achieved 4/10/17. Phase 2 (10C Enhancement) – 10C target operational date Nov 2017. Shelter installation scheduled to begin June 2017 with an installation complete date of 8/31/2017. Phase 3 (9R Enhancement) – 9R construction estimated to be completed Spring 2018 and IOC Fall 2018. DTW: ORD declared 4/20/16. Phase 2 (21L): Cable installation (2 Circuits) begins June 2017. Pre - Construction meeting to take place in July, Fixture/Cabl e installation in August, Optimization and Shadow Operations to take place in October. Activation/JAI in November. BWI: IOC took place on 3/8/17. JAI inspection was help on 6/21/17. SFO: IOC (Initial Operating Capability) was declared on 11/30/16. ORD p lanned for August 2017. BOS: Shelter delivery TBD. Some work activities had to be shifted due to inability to excavate without Fish and Wildlife. Work on going. DFW: Construction is in process and on schedule. Shelter work will begin mid - June and comple ted late August. San Diego: Tower site survey to be held late July 2017. Runway Safety: Closed Runway Occupancy Prevention Device (CROPD): Live Testing at JFK was completed last year. The FY17 focus site is RNO. Initial controller training has been co mpleted. MITRE is doing another performance analysis on the additional data now being collected in RNO. This performance analysis will include observed speed recognition and expected alert performance based on the periods of RNO runway closures. The software that i s being used here in RNO is different than the software that was used at JFK. There has been quite a bit of work on the speech recognition portion of the software in particular MITRE has added much more real 'controller speech' to train the software