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In our meeting with AJI-2 leadership, it became clear that development and deployment of training standards for En route and VFR towers is a top priority as well as implementing human performance concepts at the academy. We are discussing how to get assistance to make this a reality. Academy Training We have begun scrubbing the content for the AT basics class at the academy. We hope to have this finished and ready for deployment ASAP. Health & Wellness PFS We will deliver a briefing sheet on hydration and cognitive performance. NEXTGEN Kevin McLaughlin (SCT) is the National NextGen Representative for NATCA. His report to the membership is below. MITRE Aviation Advisory Committee (AAC) NATCA participates on the MITRE AAC by virtue of the collaborative relationship that NATCA has fostered with the McLean, Va.-based Aviation division of this federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). MITRE produces an enormous amount of leading edge research on subjects such as cyber security, systems engineering, and of course aviation. Other AAC participants include FAA leadership, Industry, general aviation advocate groups, and MITRE board members. Among the topics briefed at this quarter's AAC were FAA budget outlook, State of the Aviation Industry, aviation data analytics, and improving airport capacity internationally. Remote Offshore Meteorology Information Demonstration (ROMIO) The ROMIO Program is an effort to address a safety gap and bring real time long-range modeling and depiction of oceanic convective weather into the cockpit. NATCA participates in workgroup bi-weekly meetings. Recently, late stage identified modifications to Cloud Height Tops data have hampered the run-up to IOC. Additionally, NATCA identified as recently as last week a shortfall in the web-based viewer designed to provide ROMIO equipped aircraft awareness to oceanic areas. Currently, late March is still the target rollout date but a slip into April is a very likely. 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 develop and update ATO capabilities, services, systems and procedures to more efficiently integrate space operations into the NAS. The Workgroup met on Feb. 21, and a primary topic at the meeting was Space Data Integrator Tool (SDI). AJV-7 loaned a large portion of the meeting time to NextGen/PMO for the purpose of scoping SDI rollout. The SDI Tool will automate what is currently a highly manual process of hazard area design and dissemination and potentially provide a means for the JSpOG to share launch and recovery protected airspace and associated data with field facilities through System Wide Information Management (SWIM). This is

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