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Special Focus RSAT SFO A Special Focus RSAT (Runway Safety Action Team) meeting will be conducted February 27th – March 1. These meetings were prompted by the Wrong Surface SRM. The meetings will include ALPA, NBAA, IATA, FAA lines of businesses, and several airlines. Surface Safety Group (SSG) The next SSG meeting is Jan. 16-19. I am the co-lead of the group. The group is designed to identify and understand the contributing factors, analyze risks, and develop safety strategies to maintain the safest levels of surface operations. This group does a deeper dive into all the Category A, B, and C runway incursions in the system. WEATHER Matt Tucker (ZTL) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative for Weather. His update for the membership is below. I attended a couple of telcons about testing of both systems and the continuing development of the systems. ITWS rehost, which falls under NWP, conducted Factory Acceptance Testing and passed. This was necessary as the legacy system uses Sun Solaris and is obsolete so the system was rehosted on Linix. The system worked and acted just like the legacy system so there is a fall back if current systems start to fail before NWP deploys. NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of January 22, 2018 FLOW EVALUATION TEAM (FET) Tony Smith (DCC) is the Article 114 Representative to the Flow Evaluation Team (FET) for Collaborative Decision Making (CDM). His report is below. The CDM/FET subgroup had our January and February meetings canceled because of budget constraints limiting travel. Once a budget is passed that allows us to meet, we hope to resume work on the use of the Airborne Reroute (ABRR) and Pre-Departure Reroute (PDRR) capabilities when they come on-line at the Centers. Our next meeting is expected to be a Human in the Loop (HITL) testing of the Integrated Departure Management (IDM) tool with NASA. That testing is being planned for March 20-21, 2018. NAS MONITORING EQUIPMENT (NME) Corrie Conrad (PDX) is the Article 114 Representative for Navaids Monitoring Equipment (NME), Integrated Control Monitoring System (ICMS), and Remote Radio Control System (RRCS). Ms. Conrad's report to the membership is below. ICMS ICMS warranty was renewed: In the renewing of the warranty it was determined that in order for ICMS to be on critical power, power supplies must be upgraded. NBP is currently working with FAA to accomplish this under the new warranty. This will hopefully help in some of the unexpected shutdowns that have happened in the past.

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