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demonstrated extremely erratic tra cking within Houston Approach. The track was showing a zigzag or starburst behavior and actually split into three separate tracks at one point. The SBS Perfo rmance Monitor did flag the aircraft as non - compliant, but this data is c urrently only used post event. Flight Standards indicated they would quic kly reach out to the operator. On August 16 , the same aircraft repeated i t s bad tracking behavior at Potoma c Approac h on while on Final to Dulles. The tracking left the facility so uncertain of the aircraft's true position tha t they stopped all departures. This event was also found to be highlighted by the P erformance Monitor post event. Flight Standards now states they have finally grounded the aircraft. Advanced IM American Airlines leadership still hasn't made the decision to support the funding required for AIRS to move forward, though all parties all still optimistic. Paired Approach work is still mov ing forward. Development of Controller Display Features needed to support the application as well as the overarching A - IM ConOps work still in progress. ASDE - X Tech Refresh: Due to recent events in the NAS, there is a renewed interest in taxiway alerts f or the system, which was started by the Runway Safety office last year. There is now some backtracking that is being done due to the lack of involvement from AJV - 7 from the beginning. Dan Hamilton is actively involved in the entire process to ensure the in tegrity of the system remains in place. Concerns regarding false alerts, late alerts, incorrect alerts and no alerts are being discussed in addition to other possible mitigations for this overlying issue. ASSC : ANC Design review scheduled for the week of 8/21. CVG meetings planned for the week of 8/28 in preparation for initial training. CVG is the next site to receive ASSC, scheduled for March of next year. Significant issues occurred when the agency attempted to load new mandatory Internet security ch anges to ASSC in CLE. Those changes were backed out of the system, and testing will be conducted at CVG prior to IOC. If issues continue to occur, the Security updates will be postponed further until all problems are resolved. The program will not take a d elay due to new security mandates. FMA in Fusion: Operational evalu ation and SRMP have concluded. Sep Standards and Collision Risk analysis of IBI mode has delay ed the completion of the SRMD. Operational start of FMA use of Fusion is now planned for No vember 2017. NATCA continues to work to shorten the time frame as much as feasible. Future Surface Surveillance : Additional meetings will take place in D.C. the week of 7/24 regarding and ASDE3 and SMR replacement. These meetings are purely informational .