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the lab for live traffic. The results were better than expected with the sync data being loaded in about twenty minutes. The capabilities demonstrated sparked many new ideas from the SMEs present that would allow controllers to utilize the lab during an outage to stabilize the oceanic airspace in the event a facility is unable to provide service. The group is planning several tests to prove the concept and to develop procedures to be able to safely clear airspace in a contingency event. Mr. Grider is part of a training workgroup that has been established to develop requirements for controller training during a contingency event. The workgroup has met twice and is making good progress. They are working with the human factors experts to begin testing what would be the right amount of training needed to safely work during different scenarios. Once these requirements are defined, Mr. Grider will work with AJI to create training for controllers in the field. EN ROUTE AUTOMATION WORKGROUP (ERAW) Julio Henriques (ZNY) leads the ERAW efforts for NATCA. Rex Jackson (ZDC) provides this update, his report is below: NATCA Technology Update – June 22, 2018 Six FTRs supported initial Data Comm Functionality Verification (DFV) testing at ZID. UPS1111 was the first flight to receive a CPDLC message from an ARTCC. The DFV process is ongoing with ZKC and ZME scheduled to begin in July. EAE112 completed Ops Eval testing and has been released in support of the Data Comm waterfall. The National User Team conducted a quarterly meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, the week of June 11th. The team received program briefings and worked on the following issues: Data Comm The Data Comm team briefed on the status of the program. The briefing included an update on the deployment schedule, failure mode issues, upcoming 8-1-1 changes, DFV planning at the key-sites, and future enhancements. ADS-B SLE briefed the group on several instances of malfunctioning transponders showing invalid Mode-C, none of the issues were due to ERAM processing errors. Solutions and procedures are still being explored for these anomalies. GIMMS Team members that participated in the first GIMMS demo provided an overview and shared ideas that would improve future demos. The forward plan is to have all user team members attend a demo before moving forward on the use cases. R-Side Conflict Probe The R-Side Conflict Probe task team briefed on their recent conceptual demo at MITRE and presented a draft use case to the NUT. The concept brings conflict probe to the radar position with added functionality including time to conflict and graphical depiction of alerts.

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