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Items to be disc ussed: Implementation, military, and PASS meeting to discuss the printer . Schedule: Key site: November 2017 - Janu ary 2 018. Five key sites to be conducted: Tower, TRACON, Honolulu, Alaska , and Puerto Rico. Contracts: Two - year base, which started July 2016. SLE wi ll send the expected timeline. As it stands first article testing will be complete January 2018 with the Production CLIN ex ercised January/February 2018. SSM release – February/ March 2018. EFSTS Phase 2 kits were sent to all Phase 2 sites and all Phase 2 sites are completing instal l and the associated training. The EFSTS Team is currently at the Chattanoog a Air Traffic Control Tower completing the install and training of the EFSTS system. CHA's install will conclude the scheduled and planned install of the EFSTS system at this time. The EFSTS team will continue to support the EFSTS facilities with requested adaptations and technical support. FIDI There is nothing to update at this time. HUMAN PERFORMANCE Jay Barrett (MIA) is the Article 114 Repres entative for Human Performance. His report is below. Human Factors Activities Certification Standards — - Tom Ad cock and I convened a workgroup for three days that vetted the standards that were developed at N90. We used four controllers who are also OJTIs and three FLMs and one t raining manager. The group did an outstanding job and worked very hard to get through a ll the standards. We now have a set of certification standards t hat could be used at all TRACONs if that is the decision that is made after the F11 validation. This group also provided valuable feedback on what the implementation plan will ultimately look like. After we complete the validation at F11 we would like to reassemble the workgroup to complete work on the implementation plan. F11 — We will begin training the standards on August 7. The plan will be for each training team to be trained as a group s o that the day after the two - day training class they can begin using the standards. There will be eight training session with everyone completing the training by 8/25. The training will involve some HF material on teaching and learning as well as in - depth discussion of each of the standards. There will also be three lab runs where the OJTIs and FLMs will practice using the standards with our assistance. There will be ongoing onsite support from the HP office for a few months to assist the OJTIs and FLMs in using the standards and to help prevent any organizational drift that may occur in training. Safety Culture Assessment - I visited TPA for a week where we did briefings and motivated the employees there to complete the survey. We had a very high participa tion rate of more than 85%. We are now compiling the data and assembling issues for discussion during the work shops. We will conduct the three - hour workshops beginning