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There were two items brought to the meeting for discussion. Gary M cMullin (SWA) briefed the group on inconsistency issues between MVAs and procedure altitudes driven by obstacles and/or precipitous terrain. Gary Petty (AFS) was going to investigate further before the group takes any action. Andrew Riedel briefed the gro up on the Jeppesen / Garmin partnership which has allowed Garmin to deliver navigation databases that are built to high enough integrity that the operators who use them do not have to do the RNP AR Appendix 3 process each cycle. Andrew recommended that ope rators approach GE and Honeywell to urge them to pursue a relationship and proper qualification of their tools to allow their customers to also not need to do the Appendix 3 checks every cycle. Our next meeting/ teleconfer ence was scheduled for March 28 a nd our face to face meeting will be May 9 - 10 in Denver. RESILIENCY TEAM Tim Travis (ZID) is the Resiliency Article 114 Representative for NATCA. His update for the membership is below. Resiliency had one meeting which I could not attend because I needed 45 days' notice to travel and only got five da y s ' notice. This has happened several times. The group is developing several models that will assess the Resiliency level of Tier 1 Facilit ies and the next step will be TRACONS. COI has not had any TELCONS or meetings . TACTICAL ACTION NOTIFICATION RESPONSE (TANR) Shannon Jenkins (ZME) is the Article 114 Representative for Tactical Action Notification Response (TANR). Her re port to the membership is below: - - ‐ Miami TANR LOA was signed Mar ch 9, 2018 and went into effect in March . LOA includes CONR160/AOC, EADS, WADS, ZMA, MIA, PBI, FLL, HST and the 125th FW. - - ‐ March 19 - 21: briefed TA NR to ZBW. Live fly exercise was scheduled for March 21 but cancelled due to inclement weath er. Exercise rescheduled for March 27. - - ‐ Established contact with FACREPs from other facilities to better educate and prepare them for upcoming briefings and exercises and to answer any questions they may have. - - ‐ Socialized through contact with FACREPs from other facilities for gaining more Real Time knowledge of events in which TANR was used.