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some work to do to make sure they can work existing equipment and the planned replacements for VSCS and ERIDS. FTR s have been at the Tech Center in Atlantic City this month evaluating a demo of DataComm Full Services. This has been an early look so the team can make any needed changes to the design and giv e recommendations on training. Full Services in Data C omm will a dd functions like h old clearances, speed assignments , and ride advisories. We have also attended demos at MITRE and Leidos for several other future concept programs. Members of the NUT worked on Controller - to - Controller communication tools, Trial plannin g and Probe on the R - side and Fusion Based Display. Some of these programs are still several years from deployment, but it's important to have NATCA Subject Matter Experts work on them as early as possible so we can help shape their design. Some of the i ssues the NUT has been working on: ER 178785 CID Letter Allocation Wayne briefed the team on how the legacy system allocated CIDs and also discussed options fo r modifying the current method. The issue will be discussed again next week and desired behavio r language will be developed. ER 175522 Dwell Lock Keyboard Command The updated problem statement was discussed, the desired behavior is to develop a new command line entry that will enable/disable the dwell lo ck feature for a specified FDB. New language was added to turn the dwell On/Off r egardless of its current state. The updated problem statement was send to the team and will be discussed again next week. ER 174189 Data Com Radar Service Terminated The Data Com m team is reviewing this ER and the reques t for a change to the use case. ER 174779 GI Messages The task team reviewed the draft problem statement and also discussed an older but not implemented SIG1642 which may already have the correct desired behavior. The task team will determine if SIG1642 w ill address the current situation and brief the team on their findings. ER 179367 D - Side Font Size SIG1621 changed the size of the font for the D - position disp lay; the new font is too small. The CHI team will be reviewing all D - position views to determine what t he correct font size should be. Once the CHI teamwork is complete, the user team will be briefed on the changes. ER 177574 Keyboard Macro Command The task team discussed the possibility of withdrawing the completed problem statement. Their reasonin g is that there may be little a dvantage to having the feature. Several FTRs commented that they thought the idea still had merit and would l ike to continue the discussion. The ER will be discussed again until the team can determine if there is a safe and u sable way to implement this function.