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National Safety and Technology Leadership Committee The NSTLC met the first week of February in Los Angeles; among the items on the agenda were Commercial Space briefing by Mark Prestrude, Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) rollout waterfall, AHA/CHA Airspace Management Plans, Remote Towers, En route DataComm, and TBFM. Remote Offshore Meteorology Information Demonstration (ROMIO) The ROMIO program is an effort to bring real time long-range modeling and depiction of oceanic convective weather into the cockpit. NATCA participates in workgroup bi-weekly meetings. The scheduled December 2017 launch date has slipped again due to delayed vendor delivery of the web-based viewer that will enable PC display of ROMIO equipped tracks in the Oceanic Areas and contracting issues. There is some concern regarding the bandwidth volume regard by ROMIO with suggestions to limit higher altitude weather data. Additionally, not all three participant air carriers have proceeded at the same pace with pilot training and equipage, and this will likely result in a rolling start to the Program. Currently, late March now looks like the likely launch window. Space Integration Enhancements Field Outreach Led by AJV-7, the purpose of this workgroup is to assess the current analogue state of FAA Space Tools and how to leverage Agency work to update to develop ATO capabilities, services, systems and procedures to more efficiently integrate space operations into the NAS. The Workgroup met on Jan. 17 to validate the results of an intensive, highly detailed operational walkthrough of "as-is" and "to-be" states of Launch and Recovery operations. The most impactful scenarios regarded the examination of likelihoods of near to mid term successful implementation of technology to condense workload and compress timelines of pre and post Launch and recovery ops. Joint Space Operations Group (JSpOG) NATCA continues to participate in the bi-weekly meetings of this ATCSCC based Ops group. The JSpOG is the primary FAA operational interface with the Commercial Space Industry for LOA creation and launch/recovery support activities. The JSpOG currently is in the process of negotiating or implementing 30 LOAs for active or proposed Spaceports throughout the NAS. The JSpOG supported numerous launch and recovery events this month, including providing Airspace Management Plans for the Space X Falcon 9 Heavy Demo Flight and two Falcon9 launches. The Falcon 9 Heavy utilized three booster rockets, the YouTube video below shows the two first stage boosters being recovered at the launch site and it's impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_kfM-BmVzQ&index=56&list=WL Commercial Space Integration Team (CSIT) The Commercial Space Integration Team (CSIT) latest monthly meeting occurred on Jan. 23. Topics on the Agenda included AJI-3 Acceptable Level of Risk (ALR) briefing, AJI-3 Safety Engineering: Captive Carry Safety Panel Update, AJV- 7 Space Work Package 1, JO 7400.2 Update, AJR-F Updates on International Commercial Space activities, Airspace Access Priorities Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) activities, Spaceport

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