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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of March 12, 2018 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & OCEANIC PROCEDURES (ATOP) John Lenhart (ZOA) is the Article 114 Representative for Advanced Technologies & Oceanic Procedures (ATOP). Mr. Lenhart's report is below: ATOP Work package 1 priorities ranking ATOP Tech Refresh 2 SRMP ATOP Build T27 End User Testing ATOP Weather Deviations, Contingency, and Failure Mode ATOP Work Package 1 (WP1) is a proposed multi-part feature enhancement for the ATOP oceanic system. Due to the length of the project and funding cuts, some of the proposed enhancements are now obsolete or unfunded. The NATCA ATOP site leads have continued to work with the Agency with identifying what portions of WP1 are still feasible. Since this program began with no NATCA or ATOP site input, the NATCA site leads have been trying to redirect the remaining funding and support towards enhancements requested by the sites. The site leads completed the ranking and eliminating of WP1 items this month. ATOP Tech Refresh 2 (TR2) provides the ATOP system with a much-needed technology upgrade to behind-the-scenes equipment as well as new monitors and backlit keyboards bringing the ATOP equipment more in line with other equipment used in the NAS. The ATOP site leads have already worked with the Agency on the selection and previewing of the equipment. Later this month, they will be completing the SRMP process for TR2. Implementation for the TR2 is tentatively scheduled to begin later this fiscal year. The ATOP site leads will be traveling to the FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City later this month in order to perform end user testing for ATOP Build T27. While at the Tech Center the site leads will meet with members of the ATOP program office as well as AJV-84 to address current issues related to weather deviations with aircraft using reduced oceanic separation. Additionally, the ATOP site leads will meet with the Agency about updating the ATOP failure mode and the ATOP contingency procedures. AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV-7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative to the AJV-7 Office. His update for this report is below: Terminal CHI work with TAMR on STARS E2 Lee Moore, Jimmy White, and I met with the STARS E2 team to discuss early CHI subjects on spacing and merging tools. The team will continue to meet in early spring and into the summer. Terminal CHI and En route CHI will be getting together soon to discuss areas where STARS E2 touches ERAM.

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