Narrative:

I was working X radar position. I was working a SR22 in level flight at nine thousand feet 21 miles southeast of xyz VORTAC. The aircraft was just crossing the sector boundary into my airspace. The previous sector radar controller called me to advise that the MOA had gone active 2 minutes prior. The area had not been scheduled in the uret and therefore did not appear automatically on the scope when it went active. The aircraft was in the northeast corner of the MOA and I issued a heading to clear the area the quickest way. The aircraft exited the area approximately 2 minutes later. The person that initially takes the request to schedule the MOA (the center management advisory council); or the area supervisor; should be responsible for inputting the schedule into the uret. This has been an ongoing and consistent problem and is dangerous!

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Enroute Controller described an airspace entry event when timely information regarding the MOA was not available in the URET system.

Narrative: I was working X RADAR position. I was working a SR22 in level flight at nine thousand feet 21 miles southeast of XYZ VORTAC. The aircraft was just crossing the sector boundary into my airspace. The previous sector RADAR Controller called me to advise that the MOA had gone active 2 minutes prior. The area had not been scheduled in the URET and therefore did not appear automatically on the scope when it went active. The aircraft was in the northeast corner of the MOA and I issued a heading to clear the area the quickest way. The aircraft exited the area approximately 2 minutes later. The person that initially takes the request to schedule the MOA (the Center Management Advisory Council); or the area supervisor; should be responsible for inputting the schedule into the URET. This has been an ongoing and consistent problem and is DANGEROUS!

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.