DCIT 30
Plenary Meeting
January 30, 2014; 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The following notes and presentations mentioned within can be viewed on the Harris SharePoint under
the DCIT Plenary library. Please contact Tracey Gibson for more information at 202-824-0088.
Attendees:
Name
Gregg
Carol
Kim
Lou
Chris
Andy
Tracey
Gregg
Kathleen
Leslie
John
Rob
Andrew
John
Mark
Jerry
Sean
Kevin
Jesse
Ray
Ron
Joseph
Ross
Arnol
Ray
Anderson
Burr
Cardosi
Casale
Collings
Fry
Gibson
Kastman
Kearns
Mahaffey
McCormick
Mead
Onken
O'Sullivan
Patterson
Smith
St. John
Swiatek
Wijntjes
Adams
Boyd
d'Hedouville
Dickinson
Ketros
Martinez
Company
E-Mail
FAA
MITRE
DOT/Volpe
UPS
Harris
THANE, Inc.
CGH Technologies
UPS
SITA
WCG
FedEx
Boeing
ARINC
Harris
FAA/FS
Harris Corp
ARINC
UPS
FAA
FAA
THANE, Inc.
Thales ATM
FAA
Harris
FAA
gregg.anderson@faa.gov
cburr@mitre.org
kim.cardosi@dot.gov
lcasale@ups.com
ccolling@harris.com
afry@thaneincorp.com
tgibson@cghtech.com
gkastman@ups.com
Kathleen.Kearns@sita.aero
lesliemaha@aol.com
jtmccormickiii@fedex.com
rob.mead@boeing.com
aonken@arinc.com
josulliv@harris.com
mark.patterson@faa.gov
jerry.smith@harris.com
sstjohn@arinc.com
kswiatek@ups.com
jesse.wijntjes@faa.gov
rayadams@yahoo.com
rboyd@thaneincorp.com
Joseph.d'HEDOUVILLE@us.thalesgroup.com
rdickinson64@comcast.net
aketros@harris.com
rafael.martinez@faa.gov
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Moin
Abulhosn
Ed
Barron
Chris
Byrd
Dave
Cherry
Claudia
Chitty
Doug
Clark
Bruce
Eckstein
Bobbie
Kahklen
Elvan
McMillen
Bruce
Notley
Robert
Pruneau
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Strider
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Tornese
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Arnold
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Buck
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Clausen
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Cooley
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Kraatz
Jon
Pendleton
Kieran
O'Carroll
Paul
Fisher
Rafael
Quezada
Scott
Johnson
Shawn
Wynn
Sophie
Bousquet
Tracy
Lennertz
Wade
Stanfield
Suzy
Hawkins
Bob
Slaughter
Michael
Beck
Nassissie
Fekadu
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FAA/BCI
FAA
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FAA/BCI
ITT Exelis
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Noblis
FAA
Harris
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THANE, Inc.
FAA
MITRE
Southwest Airlines
FAA
Lockheed Martin
Delta
AOV
FAA/AOV-330
FAA/AOV
RTCA
DOT/Volpe
Thales
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United
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Moin.Abulhosn@faa.gov
ebarron@bcisse.com
christopher.j.byrd@faa.gov
dcherry@thaneincorp.com
claudia.chitty@lmco.com
dclark@bcisse.com
Bruce.Eckstein@exelisinc.com
bobbie.kahklen@faa.gob
Elvan.McMillen@noblis.org
bruce.notley@faa.gov
rpruneau@harris.com
dstrider@northstargroupllc.com
rtornese@thaneincorp.com
Stephen.Arnold@faa.gov
fbuck@mitre.org
perry.clausen@wnco.com
Steve.Cooley@faa.gov
michael.kraatz@lmco.com
jon.pendleton@delta.com
ocarrollk@iata.org
paul.fisher@faa.gov
rafael.quezada@faa.gov
Scott.R.Johnson@faa.gov
sbousquet@rtca.org
Tracy.Lennertz@dot.gov
wade.stanfield@us.thalesgroup.com
suzanne.e.hawkins@boeing.com
bob.slaughter@aa.com
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Chris Collings with Harris announced the three year anniversary of the DCIT
o Three years ago, in January 2011, the DCIT formed and has continued to accomplish
since the inception.
G Anderson gave a Program Update:
o Some things repeated at a program level may not be heard. The DCIT has paid close
attention to risk, but will have to elevate the awareness of risk and what can hurt the
program. The team has been given the action to clean up the details and sharpen the
risk management elements.
o Ops side – There is a meeting scheduled with user team to look at final CHI product
based on the last few years of input.
 Will go through the development and tracked changes to the TLDLS that haven’t
been incorporated.
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The training devices are outdated and will be upgrading the current platform.
Will also ensure that all changes in the pipeline were captured for TDLS
equipped towers?
 Will also work with a training product work as an eLMS workstation product and
plan to have that culminated this year.
 The program will be on the road in early 2015 for Outreach and promotion. The
pipeline is being laid out in a right to left fashion.
Systems Engineering is working to ensure baseline documentation is capturing what was
discussed in the DCIT and Program meetings.
 Baseline activity is still going through edits. Systems Engineering is working
through tests, and meet daily to plan and work details.
 The integration and test process will start as early as next month. The End User
efforts will be started soon and the team will bring in end users to start that
process.
 In January current schedule pan to have operational folks to work with sites.
October, will introduce Salt Lake, and Houston will be after that.
 The program is bringing in resources who know the system, those who
need to learn, and a mix of everything else.
 When this is a success in January, will deploy as early as February.
 The team will work through key sites through remainder of 2015.
 Goals are Salt Lake, Houston Intercontinental, and Houston Hobby with
in-service decision. (This decision is based on a report provided by
assessment to determine whether or not the system works.) The group
to provide the assessment will be an independent group with a Flight
Deck representative, operational, and ground side. Once this process
gets through these first few, and then can proceed to site 4.
 Nothing has changed from waterfall and towers are expected in by 2016.
Jesse Wijntjes provided an Enroute update
 Integration and test phase - Last piece was getting v12 release from TDLS which
will be delivered to the Tech Center.
 Enroute will be going for baseline decision this fall. A lot needs to happen
between now and then. The team will need to work closely with benefits,
requirements, and agreement with ERAM.
 The Program is looking forward to a strong user community commitment. This
has a 2019 deadline. Real benefits will come from Enroute.
 A discussion from the last SC-214 was to harmonize standards between the US
and Europe, and to focus on looking at acquisitions. Buy-in and support from
DCIT are beneficial and appreciated.
Gregg Anderson emphasized the need to work with FAA Benefits and Metrics for PMO
reporting. The FAA counterparts for these groups will be contacting Harris to start
discussing strategies and plans to collect data.
 John McCormick with FedEx reiterated his dedication to the DCIT on behalf of
the FedEx crew and leadership. The original plan was to keep trial sites going,
and it is important to FedEx to help accomplish this.
 The Program is aware of concerns and looking at ways it can be worked
beyond the program.
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There is a 90-120 day window that must be acted upon. There is
a break period in these sites to allow for operational work.
The DCIT is collaborative team that has made this a successful
project. Jesse added that the bigger picture is that the more
management and user community see this as a value, the
better.
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Benefits and Metrics
 The future DCIT working groups will include Karen Davis and her team from FAA
Benefits and Metrics to have interdependent discussions. Benefits wants to get
with DCIT members individually to determine what is important to each entity.
 Gregg presented a Ft. Lauderdale Airport model (by Mike Yablonski with Noblis)
to demonstrate the efficiency of Data Comm and how it is expected to work.
 This is a benefits tool that all agreed will be helpful to demonstrate the
services provided by Data Comm. Videos from this model will be shared
with industry leaders through Harris SharePoint.
Newark/Memphis Trials update from Matt Maki.
o Newark Update
 9 daily B777 international flights with United are successful. The schedule for
continues B767 Ops is pending. (The 16/25 Minimum Ops Required is
complete.)
 FedEx has continued MD11/B777 daily ops with up to 8 flights/day. Close to
100% success rate with FedEx on Daily OPS
 UPS has continued limited DCL ops with MD11/B767 flights of 1-5 per week (8
daily ops expected once planning is completed).
 International Trials update –
 Mark Patterson with FAA Flight Standards is working on the AFS50/400/2p Approval letter to the UK CAA. The letter should be signed by
2P very soon. All steps in the process have been done and signature is
what is left.
 British Airways will commence first, followed by Scandinavian air and
Lufthansa. There is not a “one-size-fits-all’ is because each operator has
its own CAA. However, getting the first package through to British
Airways will make the process much easier.
 DTAP cable and router changes are complete and issues have been resolved.
 Two DTAP restarts per week serve as a work-around for Handling Fix
issue.
 Newark ATC Refresher Training is complete to support 24 shift operations.
o Memphis Update
 DTAP/Interfaces are stable with no unplanned recons and two restarts are
ongoing for Tuesdays and Fridays. The Dual Max Handling Fix will possibly be
included in B7.
 Daily Memphis Ops continue with no RTE revisions.
 Boeing Ops data reporting is a useful tool and will be on-going.
 UPS Ops are limited in MEM.
o DTAP B7.1/7.2 –
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The Build has been broken into two releases; 1) Climb Via Sid; 2) Flight Deck
Response to AOC.
 FAA review of Harris-Thales ECRs are on-going regarding pre-coding
requirements and strategy to mitigate problems with delivery.
 The Systems Integration Description Document has been updated to include the
Climb Via, Climb Via SID, and Flight Deck Response to AOC.
Jerry Smith reviewed the OPR Status
o Many improvements have been made in the development and flow of the OPR process.
The process has evolved, but could be tightened up more. Jerry and the Harris team are
working on more improvements.
o Comments regarding Build 7 been received and will compare to baseline requirements
 Jesse Wijntjes is interested in seeing more of the functional side of 7.1. & 7.2
o A623 attempts are logged and getting fixed.
o The FedEx spreadsheet outlines number of successful flights to flights attempted at
MEM. The total is 309 successful out of 313, which is highly successful. The flights that
were not successful were minor issues.
o Training manuals are updated into procedure and training manuals regularly.
Enroute Working Group update; Rob Mead – Rob presented the Enroute Report Out slides for
the working group update.
o Key issues are being discussed in detail regarding the Transfer of Comm/Initial Contact
(TOC/IC) document, authored by Andy Fry.
 The group discussed Uplink messages, workload, and getting Comm by ACARS.
o Route Modifications - Getting excellent communication from several groups – Use cases,
route clearances, and Lockheed Martin with specific issues.
 A meeting at FAA HQ has been scheduled for a briefing of Route Mods.
 Rob expressed that the percentage of these that will require avionics change is
aimed at NONE.
o A discussion with the slide - If the result of the AFN Response (FN_RESP) message or the
AFN Complete (FN_COMP) message is negative or not received ERAM will:
 If a message assurance (MAS) fail ground message is received to NDA – Ground
will retry one time
 If negative or no FN_RESP – Ground system will retry one time
 If negative or no FN_COMP - Ground system will ignore
 If AFN Forwarding is unsuccessful - upon receipt by the aircraft of a Contact TOC
and response from the flight crew or voice handoff to the new ATS service
provider the existing NAS CPDLC will be termination.
 If process fails aircrew is to use standard GOLD CPLDC re-logon
procedures with the new ATS system provider
o Andy Fry covered functions needed in the end to end to include all operational scenarios
that would be put in place with the NAS.
o Plenary Approval screen - the Plenary Agreement is accepted.
Gregg Anderson added that the CHI demo is progressing and the prototype will be done in New
Jersey. The process is progressing and moving closer to something real.
Working Group Updates –
o AOC – The last three weeks have had meetings with the Production team; Tom Cleary,
Elvan McMillen, and IFCET to work out the Level of Effort and man-hours to be in the
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test scheme. The discussed “verify messages” and other test activities. AOC is fully
engaged with Prod activities.
Flight Deck Working Group – The group has worked on the TOC/IC document, descend
via, airway intercepts, and several other sub-topics. The group is preparing for 7.1 drop,
and working with Harris on the Enroute trial aspect to determine what the Flight Deck
group can do to support. The group is scheduling telecons for upcoming weeks to
discuss further, and airlines will be present.
 Andy added that the Flight Deck Working Group needs a full day at DCIT next
meeting to discuss the Enroute activities that have an impact on the Flight Deck.
Systems Integration Team –
 The group convened at this DCIT to go through final climb via work, and the
SIDD will be distributed. A final version will be released for trials. The document
will be vetted through the plenary for release.
ATC update –
 Ron Boyd expressed a need for an Enroute SME to help with Enroute side of
ATC.
This concludes the DCIT #30 meeting.
NEXT DCIT MEETINGS
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DCIT 31 – March 12-13 at Thales, Crystal City
DCIT 32 – April 16-17 at ARINC in Annapolis
DCIT 33 – June 3-4 at Harris, Washington DC
DCIT 34 – July 16-17 at Volpe, Cambridge MA
DCIT 35 – August 20-21 at Harris, Washington DC
DCIT 36 – October 15-16 at Tech Center, Atlantic City NJ
DCIT 37 – December 10-11 at Tech Center, Atlantic City NJ
Respectfully Submitted,
Tracey Gibson, DCIT Secretariat
Data Communications Program Support
CGH Technologies, Inc.
600 Maryland Ave SW, Suite 800W
Washington, DC 20024
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