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Committee (ARC) activities, Spaceport Categorization ARC activities, and Regulator y Streamlining ARC activities. Mark Prestrude represents NATCA at the ARC meetings. Coll aborative Steering Group (CSG) NATCA continues to participate in the monthly leadership meetings of the C DM effort. The CSG consists of representatives from various industry stakeholders in cluding the airlines and NBAA. CSG delegates and oversees the work of multiple CDM sub - teams on which NATCA participates. NASA Airspace Operations and Safety Program (A OSP) NASA will host the AOSP technology workshop next week at NASA Ames Research Center. I will provide a recap of these activities next update cycle. NAS VOICE SWITCH (NVS) Jon Shedden (ZFW) represents the NATCA membership as their Article 114 Repres entative to the NVS project. His report is below. The NAS Voice System (NVS) schedule has officially slipped. The FAA and Harris continue to work on a new schedule. The detailed schedule i s expected around the April time frame. Mr. Shedden is traveling to the MMA C in OKC March 26 - 30 to assist with the OKC software install on the primary and backup systems. Next Generation Air - Ground Communication (NEXCOM) continues deployment of new CM3 00/350 V2 radios to terminal facilities across the country. Some terminal facilities in the NAS using very old radios hear a pop back or "squelch tail" when they release their transmitters. The new radios being deployed under NEXCOM Segment 2 do not have t his "feature" as the squelch tail is generally regarded as undesirable in radio communications. This issue has cropped up twice now during deployment and the program office should brief future affected facilities prior to install. NAS Voice Recorder Pro gra m (NVRP) is the replacement for e xistin g NAS voice recorders (DALR, DALR2, DVRS, DVR2). The Program Office presented to the JRC and received approval to proceed to Final Investment Analysis, leading up to the Final Investment Decision. Final Investment Decision will be in February 2019. Key site for NVRP will be Seattle Center in the 2020. A Safety Risk Management Panel is schedule for April 12 . NVRP is currently in the source evaluation phase. Grand Rapids Tower/TRACON (GRR) is reporting multiple iss ues with their aging voice switch. There's one outstanding issue where a RADAR site is causing interference in the Tower Cab. That issue continues to be worked. The Tone Mitigation National Workgroup met in September 2017 to discuss potential mitigations to the number and severity of tone/noise events across the NAS. This workgroup kicked off largely because of the number of tone/noise events occurring at PCT. One of the outcomes from these meetings was exploring the use of new headset bases which incorporate an active limiter. The FAA is in currently in the process of procuring these new headset bases. Another outcome was the investigation into and