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The airspace team is also looking at problems associated with short side OPDs so we can provide decision support tool or procedure redesign help. Submitted by Jim Davis NATCA National Airspace Rep. AIRSPACE TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATION 2 (ATD-2) Pete Slattery (CLT) represents the membership as the Article 114 Representative for ATD-2. His report for is below. The NASA Integrated Arrival, Departure, & Surface (IADS) ATD-2 system has been in use at Charlotte (CLT) tower since early October of last year. All CLT TMCs have become very comfortable with the interface and the capabilities of the system. We continue to collaborate with the local ramp tower, operated by American Airlines, on a daily basis as they also utilize the system during at least one bank of departures a day to accomplish departure metering. We are pleased with the way the system is performing and believe the ramp tower is also. CLT TMCs have submitted several change and enhancement requests to NASA that we believe will make the system perform even better. Those requests are always addressed by NASA and many of them are scheduled to be incorporated into future versions of the software. A meeting on January 24th to discuss new features in the next upcoming version had to be cancelled due to the Federal Government shutdown and has not yet been rescheduled. Due to new security concerns, there may be a delay in integrating ATD-2 and the FAA's Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) at CLT. While the FAA was fully aware and supportive of the necessity of linking the two systems since the inception of this project, it recently decided to take a second look at allowing the two systems to integrate with each other and share data. This is unfortunate since it may delay any benefits of this research that was intended to reduce risk for the FAA's Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) program. NASA engineers are studying the issue and hope to find an acceptable avenue for these two systems to share and exchange crucial flight data soon. Sharing data between these two systems is currently the only way that controllers will be able to become active participants in future departure metering programs. More on this as further info becomes available. NASA and I had been scheduled to give a briefing on ATD-2 at CLT to the combined Surface Concept Team (SCT) and CDM Automation Team (CAT) at A4A headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 23. However, that meeting was cancelled due to the federal government shutdown and has not yet been rescheduled. As always, I will continue to keep the best interests of NATCA members at the forefront of every decision made and every action taken related to ATD-2. RESILIENCY TEAM Tim Travis (ZID) is the Resiliency Article 114 Representative for NATCA. His update for the membership is below. Resiliency met in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 17-19 to discuss the Operational Readiness Index and AMI. The engineers that have been hired to do modeling have finished a very

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