Citation III; VI; VII (C650)
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 4.0
Human-Machine Interface; Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Exited Penetrated Airspace
Procedure; Human Factors; ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Airspace Structure
I de-combined sectors and received Aircraft X. Under the new implementation of STARS; when a sector is decombined; restricted areas show inactive on a local geography display regardless of its actual status. I was unaware that when a position is decombined that a supervisor must run a new macro to show the correct status of the restricted area.This was not done and the restricted area showed inactive above 3;000 feet on the decombined scope only. Not being aware of this issue; I put Aircraft X on a vector at 8;000 feet through the restricted area that I believed was not active. The receiving controller had the correct local geography display on his scope showing it was active and advised me. I issued an immediate turn to the aircraft and the aircraft went about a mile into the restricted area in his turn. The status of this deficiency in the latest STARS implementation has not been disseminated to all controllers and after this event I was told this is a known issue and the same type of event has occurred more than onceEven though I am told the problem will be fixed in the next implementation; it still needs to be disseminated to the controllers so they are aware that the local geography display on their scope may be incorrect if a new macro has not been run concurrent with decombining a position.
PCT Supervisor reported failing to not make the correct system macro entries after de-combining a sector. The Restricted Area status displayed not in use on the Controller's radar display when it was actually in use. The Controller allowed an aircraft to enter the Restricted Area.