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IDAC Towers will not have to revert back to traditional Call-for-Release when the Center changes their TBFM constraint system for a given flow of traffic. The NEC team members visited PHL to continue with TRACON TMC familiarization and future PHL metering improvement design work. During the week of Aug. 20, ZTL was given adaptation/customizations for future IDAC work. Ops team members were on site at ZTL and identified issues in the customizations that needed to be fixed and most were addressed on site. Briefings were given to Facility TMU personnel about how the system works and how it will minimize the amount of phone calls to the multiple towers under ZTL and give the associated towers visibility in the overhead stream constraints. There will be a two-part implementation, first having IDAC training at ZTL to allow the CLT ATD- 2 system to schedule into all of ZTL's constraints, and the second part will be full IDAC implementation at all of ZTL's Towers that are on the current work package waterfall. That same week, NATCA Ops Team leadership participated in a multi-meter HITL at MITRE. The purpose of this was to test many of the future tools/concepts at the same time to gather information. On the last week in August, CLT presented briefings and gave ATD-2 Demonstrations to the Ops Team. A very big thank you to CLT NATCA and the NATCA National ATD-2 114 Rep Pete Slattery for his time and effort putting this event together. The briefings and demos were very informative and highlighted the need for TBFM/IDAC Representatives to begin working together with ATD2/TFDM Reps, since these systems will be working closely together. Happening that same week, NATCA National TFDM Article 114 Rep Matt Baugh gave a demonstration of the TFDM functionality in D.C. This was very informative and we want to thank Matt and his team for their time and effort as well. This was great to have this around the same time as the ATD-2 demo at CLT, as it allowed TBFM Ops team members to compare notes and start thinking about future integration of these programs. The NEC team returned to ZNY during this time to continue working on future PHL Metering Adaptation. There are a number of challenges to work through with a project of this scope. The fact-finding phase is completed, and the team is moving forward with adaptation work that can be done at this point. They are also planning how to move forward with future work, while not disrupting current usage of the system. There will be a meeting at the Tech Center in September to work through these issues which we believe will be very beneficial. TSAS Update – submitted by TSAS Subgroup lead Paul Carroll (PCT) The TSAS Team participated in a Risk Mitigation event at the Tech Center on Aug. 21-24 and Aug. 27. During the event, the team supported ANG COT Testing for TSAS with support from ERAM test beds metering to the terminal airspace. The lab utilized STARS S6.R8 D2 and TBFM 4.9.0 i39. The team performed orthogonal testing as well as capability testing of the TSAS platform.

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