Y90 controller reports of an known automation problem within Y90 and N90. While training the control...

Narrative:

[Aircraft X] entered my airspace without completion of a handoff or other prior coordination. There is a known automation issue where these departures off of oxc from N90 flash to the wrong sector. I was distracted elsewhere due to training and did not see the aircraft until N90 called to make a verbal handoff. The airplane was already approximately 3 miles inside my airspace. There is little doubt to me that if I was not training I would have caught this before it became an issue. But a low time trainee not seeing it; and the opening of a third scope to relieve another sector forced me to move from an adjacent monitoring scope to being beside the trainee. This combined with other traffic diverting my attention away from the N90 boundary allowed this to happen without me correcting it. Then again I might have just missed it too working solo.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Y90 Controller reports of an known automation problem within Y90 and N90. While training the Controller noticed an airspace deviation related to this automation problem.

Narrative: [Aircraft X] entered my airspace without completion of a handoff or other prior coordination. There is a known automation issue where these departures off of OXC from N90 flash to the wrong sector. I was distracted elsewhere due to training and did not see the aircraft until N90 called to make a verbal handoff. The airplane was already approximately 3 miles inside my airspace. There is little doubt to me that if I was not training I would have caught this before it became an issue. But a low time trainee not seeing it; and the opening of a third scope to relieve another sector forced me to move from an adjacent monitoring scope to being beside the trainee. This combined with other traffic diverting my attention away from the N90 boundary allowed this to happen without me correcting it. Then again I might have just missed it too working solo.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1279099
Time
Date	201507
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	Y90.TRACON
State Reference	CT
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Departure Instructor Approach
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 4
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Y90 controller reports of an known automation problem within Y90 and N90. While training the controller noticed an airspace deviation related to this automation problem.