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Rose spent the entire reporting period on the road traveling to several places, including Washington, D.C., for a meeting with the TAMR Program Manager; then traveling to Atlantic City, N.J.; Omaha, Neb.; and San Diego, Calif. While in Washington, Rose met with AJV (FAA Requirements) to discuss color usage and weather sources. The meeting with the TAMR Program Manager included what comes next after deployment and implementation. R7 software testing was discussed in Atlantic City. Testing included fixes to cursor speed and tracking issues. Omaha (R90) has had issues with keyboards failing at an alarming rate. TSLE (Second Level Engineering), and NATCA visited the facility to ensure everything that could be done would be completed in a timely manner. Research into the failures is underway and a way forward was agreed upon between the TAMR Program Office, TSLE, and NATCA. The last week was spent in San Diego testing new software with the SCT tracker fixes. R6a software is now available for key sites. Sites with tracking issues utilizing fusion should see an improvement with the new software. Rose scheduled a one-day terminal-only meeting to include AJV8, AJV7, AJT, Human Factors, and NATCA to discuss color usage and data block real estate, meaning what information goes in each section of a data block. According to the 7210.3 FAA Facilities Manual, color usage is restricted to certain meanings. Facilities and other programs (Terminal Spacing and Sequencing) in the past six months have requested additional use of colors, which needs to be coordinated nationally. The meeting is scheduled for Sept 19th in Washington, D.C. TAMR NATCA Training submitted by Ross Costa (RSW) Rossano Costa (RSW) traveled to Clarksburg, West Virginia, (CKB) to deliver a TAMR training briefing to the facility, and discuss training plans and any impacts that may occur on the path to IOC for STARS. He also traveled to Fullerton, Calif., to meet with Raytheon and the FAA to discuss training and reviewed current training plans for STARS transitions. They discussed software changes, new products, and what the required training will encompass for the field for these upcoming STARS software changes. Lastly, Costa traveled to Monroe, La., for their transition to STARS. TAMR Software/Hardware Report submitted by Kyle Ness (M98) Operational Testing and Evaluation (OT&E) August was a big month for software testing, and NATCA SMEs were at the tech center each week of August. R7 run-for-record concluded on Aug. 17, system archive testing concluded on Aug. 24; and R7 regression concluded on Aug. 30. Many thanks to the SMEs who took the time to accomplish these important test events. Because R7 is critical to future STARS hardware configurations, the success of R7 testing means TAMR deployment can continue as planned with Aspen, Colo., as a key site. NATCA SMEs will participate in a software early user evaluation at Raytheon in mid-September. This will give SMEs an opportunity to provide feedback on upcoming software changes and improvements in the R9 build.

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