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Local SRM panel on April 27 , 2018. SEA is currently conducting face to face tra ining for the controllers on Taxiway Lander Alerting System. The taxiway lander ASDE - X alerting capability is expected to turn at SEA on or before June 1, 2018. Runway Incursion Prevention Shortfall Analysis (RIPSA) - Tentatively TUS, SAT, DAB have been se lected as potential site locations. A new market survey should be out within a few weeks. More information to follow once this market survey is finalized. •Commence test system(s) installation at test site(s) – Q2FY19 •Complete test system(s) installatio n at test site(s) – Q3/Q4FY19 •Commence testing and evaluation process – FY20 Special Focus RSAT SFO A Special Focus RSAT (Runway Safety Action Team) meeting was conducted February 27th – March 1. These meetings were prompted by the Wrong Surface SRM. The meetings included ALPA, NBAA, IATA, FAA lines of businesses, and several airlines. The three - day meeting was very production and several action items have been developed. Those items are still in draft form at this time. Surface Safety Group (SSG) The l ast SSG meeting was conducted on April 10 – April 12, 2018. I am the co - lead of the group. The group is designed to identify and understand the contributing factors, analyze risks, and develop safety strategies to maintain the safest levels of surface oper ations. This group does a deeper dive into all the Category A, B, and C runway incursions in the system. Originally this group was the Root Cause Analysis Team (RCAT). The RCAT only looked at Category A and B events when making recommendations to the Runwa y Safety Council (RSC) to change the NAS. The development of the SSG I believe will assist in making data driven recommendations and not recommendations based on specific events. The SSG initially reviewed 2 full years of data (FY 2016/2017) of category A/B/C runway incursion data. In each meeting, we review the last quarters Causal/Contributing factors for Operational Incidents (OIs), Pilot Deviations (PDs), and Vehicle/Pedestrian Deviations (VPDs). The SSG is continuing to review 16 initiatives contai ned in the SSG work plan and formalized the team members for each of the three workgroups to focus on completing the initiatives. Surface Safety Campaign Thru PFS, Runway Safety will begin a Surface Safety Campaign with a kickoff in the near future. This campaign will help bring controller awareness to the trending surface safety events in the NAS. One of my continued goals is to get more information to the field, and this is one of the techniques to do so. Surface Watch is a recognition program developed for the Surface Safety Campaign. Surface Watch will allow for an opportunity to bring additional awareness as well as recognition for good work in the field. WEATHER Matt Tucker (ZTL) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative for Weather. His update for th e membership is below.