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ATD ‐ 2's integratio n with the Advanced Electronic Flight Strip System (AEFS) is making progress. AEFS engineers have met with NASA and CLT and identified what data elements should be transferable between systems to allow controllers to be active participants in departure metering. Work has begun on making that happen. There are still security concerns that have not been resolved and may delay the integration of the two systems. This may push the start of Phase 2 of ATD ‐ 2 back by a few months. A decision on this is expect ed within the next few months. On Feb. 26 ‐ 27, a meeting was held at the Dallas/Fort Worth TRACON (D10) to kickoff ATD ‐ 2 Phase 3 activities that will occur in the Dallas Metroplex area. There were representatives from each facility as well as regional and FAA HQ personnel at the event. Dallas was chosen for this part of the research since there are two hub airports (DFW and DAL) within the D10 Metroplex airspace that compete for the same departure resources (Departure Fixes at the TRACON/Center boundary) . Charlotte does not have another major airport within its airspace so the concept of multiple busy airports competing for the same resource could not be tested at CLT. The FAA's future TFDM system is expected to have the ability for multiple airports to exchange data and coordinate departure activity to achieve the highest possible throughput at each airport. Departure metering activities at CLT will continue during Phase 3. The NASA ATD ‐ 2 team plans to begin meeting regularly with North Texas Field Dem o Partners (DFW, DAL, D10, and ZFW) over the next year and a half in order to refine the IADS terminal departure scheduling concept for use with multiple airports. 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. RNAV and PERFORMANCE BASED NAVIGATION (PBN) Bennie Hutto (PCT) is the Article 114 Representative for RNAV and PBN criteria work. Mr. Hutto's report for the membership is below. PBN Criteria Up date: Standard Terminal Arrival (STAR) Criteria WG Participated via telcon with the STAR WG where John Lindsey (AFS ‐ 420) did a recap of the last meeting and status update of on ‐ going issues. He also provided a recap of the discussions for Minimum Safe Altitudes (MSA's) being added to Standard Terminal Arrivals (STAR) charts from the US ‐ IFPP (Jan uary 2018) meeting. He also introduced a new method of submitting and tracking criteria change requests as well as criteria intent verification requests using a system known as JIRA. By the end of the meeting, his plan was to have a shared understanding of the Aeronautical Charting Forum (ACF) MSA topic, issues recommended thus far and the status of each, followed by an introduction to new items of interest. Our next meeting was scheduled for March 27 and is scheduled after that for every two weeks in order to get through all the issues and reach a resolution. Departure Criteria Working Group (DWG)