OPDEV SIT IN WHICH AN ACFT ENTERED ZOA AIRSPACE WITHOUT COORD HDOF AS THE HDOF FLASHED AT NFL INSTEAD OF ZOA. PROB ATTRIBUTED TO AUTOMATION SOFTWARE.

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ACFT IS FLYING DIRECT TO NFL FROM THE ILL AREA. ACFT AUTO HANDED OFF TO ZOA AND FLASHED AT NFL NOT ZOA SECTOR 43. ACFT WENT INTO ZOA'S AIRSPACE WITHOUT A HDOF OR COORD. THERE IS AN AUTOMATION PROB WITH THIS DEV. OCR FILED ON THIS MATTER ON JUN/SUN/97; THAT THIS WAS A PROB WITH AUTOMATION WITH ZLC AND ZOA. THEY WERE TOLD THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY OF A DEV OR LOSS OF SEPARATION BECAUSE OF THIS. AUTOMATION PROB IS ZOA ADAPTS THEIR COMPUTER TO SHOW THAT NFL OWN THE AIRSPACE AT GABBS AND AUS MOA AND ATCAA AT AND BELOW FL280. AT THE TIME OF THE DEV NFL DID NOT OWN ANY AIRSPACE BUT THEIR APCH CTL OWNED. ZLC COMPUTER FORWARDS FLT PLAN INFO TO ZOA'S COMPUTER. ZOA COMPUTER SHOWS NFL OWN THE AIRSPACE NOT ZOA. ZLC COMPUTER HANDS OFF THE DATA BLOCK TO FFF; WHICH IS NFL DESIGNATOR; NOT ZOA SECTOR 43. NOTHING IS BEING DONE TO CORRECT THE PROB. THE OPERATIONAL DEV IS BEING SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET (PER SE) SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO COLLECT IT. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATED THEY STILL HAVE THE PROB WHENEVER NFL SHUTS DOWN AND THE AIRSPACE IS CTLED BY ZOA. RPTR INDICATES THE COMPUTER ENTRY MADE AT THE TIME NFL GOES DOWN IS SUPPOSED TO REALIGN THE HDOFS TO ZOA BUT DOES NOT; THEY ARE STILL DIRECTED TO NFL.