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Program Trouble Report Working Group (PTRWG) SMEs from OSF will attend the August meeting. System Technical Reports Working Group (STRWG) Reviewed Thinspecs for aircraft that departed into storm when weather display not present, Backup failure notifications and allow any RADAR to use run length bits similar to ASR 9 Mode S. Pre - Change Control Board (Pre - CCB) Future STARS sites were brought forward for potential Change Control Board (CCB) changes and the benefits and impacts were di scussed with all stakeholders. Changes that have general stakeholder consensus will be submitted to the TAMR CCB for final management approval. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the TF DM Article 114 Representative. H is update for the membership is below. Installation of TFDM equipment began at the Keysite Facil ity, PHX, the week of Aug. 6. Cables were run to the tower but the monitors were taken out and set up in the equipment room. Due to PHX, CLE, and CLT already having AEFS monitors upstairs, the transition at those sites will present the ir own difficulties with space. The program and contractor are working on fixes ranging from putting AEFS on the new TFDM monitors, to having to install and remove the TFDM monitors during testing/training until the actual IOC date. Representatives from the program met with the contracto r, Leidos, the week of July 25 for the Build 2 Critical Design Revi ew (CDR). CDR is a milestone event that represents a finalizing of most of the requirements for the build as well as serving as an opportunity for us to view how they are approaching certain aspects of the system. Now Leidos will move forward with further development of the system, setting up for the next big event for us, the first of three Early User Involvement Events (EUIE's) for build 2. These events will be our opportunity to see and use the system in order to assess their progress and ensure that we have everything we need to be successful upon deployment to the first build 2 Keysite, CLT, in 2021. New risks have been added to the program involving Adaptation, training of the adaptation, as well as training as a whole. Developing the training simult aneously with the sy stem has always had its risks. However, as dates continue to slide a day or two or a week here and there with other parts of the program, the training is also delayed. If there is an overall slide for the program of mo re than two weeks , from Nov. 12, 2019 to Nov. 26, 2019, the new date for PHX IOC could slide as far out until February or March of 2020. This is due to the lack of availability for PHX to support the training time necessary for the controllers as well as numerous moratoriu ms throughout the holiday season. Training would likely need to be delayed until the beginning of January 2020 in order to continuously train PHX and allow them to gain an overall efficiency with the system prior to going live. The training team met las t week at th e tech center to go over the 60 percent Air Traffic and Air Traffic Cadre courses. This portion of the training only contained five of 10 courses, however, a lot of work was done over the course of the wee k that will make the