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NATCA Safety & Tech Update. Week of June11, 2018 REMOTE RADIO CONTROL SYSTEM (RRCS) Corrie Conrad (PDX) is the RRCS Article 114 Representative. Ms. Conrad's report to the membership is below: RRCS All-Weather Inc. was awarded the contract for RRCS. A meeting will be held next week in Sacramento, Calif., for a Human Factors Workgroup. NME No current update. SURFACE CONCEPT TEAM (SCT) Kyle Andrews (ORD) is the NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team (SCT) for Collaborative Decision Making (CDM). Mr. Andrews forwarded the information below for the membership. Due to Severe Weather Avoidance Program season, there was no recent activity for the Surface Concept Team and the next meeting is not expected until September. Kyle Andrews visited CLT ATCT and was briefed by Pete Slattery (NATCA rep for ATD- 2) on the ongoing effort by the ATD-2 project. The project is going well with many of the original ideas from the 2013 Surface ConOps being implemented. However, there is a concern that financial limitations may not allow all of the design/development automation that NASA has created to be included when this technology is given to the TFDM program. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR) Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Article 114 Representative for NATCA. His report to the membership is below. Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement (TAMR) The Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) is finally operational within the National Airspace System (NAS). This piece of equipment digitizes the analog feed from ASR8 radars to digital signals which STARS needs to display radar data. Roanoke (ROA) on June 1 became the first operational CTD site in the nation followed closely by Rockford (RFD) on June 4. Both facilities transitioned to STARS and CTD with minimal issues. In addition to RFD and ROA, P80 and BUF also transitioned to TAMR/STARS. Mr. Rose traveled to San Diego, Boston, Atlantic City, and Rockford over the last four weeks. During the SoCal trip R3F drop 4 software with improved tracking algorithms was tested and deemed suitable by AJV (FAA Requirements). Matt Morter (SCT) and Mike Sanders (SCT) were made available to participate in testing. SCT is in good hands with these two NATCA brothers.