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is to put together a workgroup that will consist of SMEs from eac h facility, members of FAST, second - level engineering, and management to develop a CONOPS fo r what requirements are needed to develop plans that can be implemented at zero hour during an outage. Once the group defines all of the requirements they will continue the workgroup to develop the OCP's for each facility. Mr. Grider and Susan Shoemaker reached out to NATCA training and safety for guidance on what requirements will need to be developed for controllers during contingency events. They have made a request with AJI to begin developing training requirements for controllers who may be working a irspace that they are not certified on. Mr. Grider, Dean Iacopelli, and Ryan Smith participated in an A rticle 7 briefing from BCP on the movement of personnel during a contingency event. The agency was not able to get t he right people on the phone to com plete the briefing. NATCA has requested that the briefing be reschedule ASAP. The BCP has cancelled all of its test and certifications until after the beginning of the year due to the lack of funding. Mr. Grider has been in contact with his counter part in the group and will be working closely with them to complete all of the requirements for the BCP so that it can be operationally ready in the next calendar year. HUMAN PERFORMANCE Jay Barrett (MIA) is the Article 114 Representative for Huma n Performance . His report is below. Human Factors Activities F11 We collect ed data at the facility two weeks ago. The facility has been using the standards for just over two months. Feedback was good in that as the OJTI and FLM have gained some comfort in using the s tandards they believe they are an improvement. Generally they like the reduced subjectivity as well as a clear understanding of what needs to be know and when in the progression of training. N90 We partnered with the NDIS workgroup to deliver informationa l briefings to the workforce at the facility. These briefings lasted about an hour and provided an overview of the entire NDIS project as well as integration of the training standards that will be implemented in early January. VSRP I attended the VSRP wo rkshop in OKC this past week and briefed the group on the AIRTRACS taxonomies we have been using in AJI. The HP office has been training the regional RAP teams on these taxonomies and how to use them. AIRTRACS is an air traffic specific process that provid es much more detailed analysis of incidents. Health & Wellness Work is progressing on the ATC survival guide. We have batted around possibly changing the title. It should be completed in January as the NDIS group has asked if it might be ready to deliver to the employees that will be hired into N90. Fatigue ZOA The report should be finished this next week. The draft has been reviewed and some small modifications are being made.