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The plan now is to do a 2nd level management briefing next week to ensure continuity across the facilit y and ensure that the FLMs have 2nd level support for the slight increase in their workload. One member of the HPT will be on site at F11 for the next six weeks or so to support the program, answer questions and inhibit any organizational drift or that may occur. We understand that an efficacy assessment is over a year or so off. N90 We are on track to take the TRACON certification standards and begin training them at N90 in m id - October. This effort is part of the broader effort called NDIS, which Tom Adco ck is heading up. Safety Culture Assessment The safety culture workshops were completed at TPA last week. We did 10 workshops and had about 55 controllers participate and provide us with very good information about the safety culture at TPA. We also spoke with six of the 11 management folks to get their perspectives on the results of the survey. Essentially, we took the results from the 50 - question survey that was completed a month ago and used those questions as a jumping off point to engage the workforce in an interactive discussion on safety, the culture of the facility, policies , and procedures , as well as health and wellness and OSHA issues. We believe the participants were very honest and sharing and we collected a plethora of de - identified informatio n that will be compiled and a report will be completed in the next month or so. Once finished the report will be distributed to AJI - 0 (Biggio), NATCA , and TPA leadership. Health & Wellness There hasn't been much going on here other than the background wo rk that continues on Academy materials for AT Basics as well as the survival guide. There has been some financial pushback on when we might be able to integrate this material into the Academy curriculum. I have been working with the national Professional Standards reps in identifying ways that we can leverage the Pro Stan program with PFS and the H&W element to raise the awareness of professionalism from a human performance and safety perspective. We believe we have some good ideas on how to reach the work force a little more effectively. Fatigue ZOA - The sleep study is ongoing. We expect to receive the actigraphs back in the second week of September. Further sleep studies I have entered into preliminary discussions with Biggio about where we undertake th e next sleep study. No decisions have been made as of yet. NEXTGEN Kevin McLaughlin (SCT) is the National Ne xtGen Representative for NATCA. His re port to the membership is below: As large portions of the transformative p rograms launched by NextGen move i nto the Program Management Office (PMO) for implementation , se veral key challenges remain. Among these challenges is the integration of rapidly growing space activities into the NAS. This week, I participated in the Commercial Space Integration Team (CSIT) along