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NAS MONITORING EQUIPMENT (NME) Corrie Conrad (PDX) is the Article 114 Representative for Navaids Monitoring Equipment (NME), Integrated Control Monitoring System (ICMS), and Remote Radio Control System (RRCS). Her report is below: There was a JRC IID meeting on June 20 to suggest the Alternative 2 – UIC-based alternative. During a PMO PMR meeting, IPNA (work within the finance offers independent assessment) suggested that the legacy alternative be done, with minor changes to UIC and ICMS, based on the amount of money that the FAA is spending. The PMO decided in the end, they are not comfortable with either. They delayed IID and did a market survey in August. They should have the market survey results back by the end of September. UIC Update The FAA began deploying version 3 restricted. The training for the new version is not of quality and not coordinated with NATCA. I am reaching out to AJW to get this fixed. RRCS Update A contract was awarded to All Weather Inc. We have had a preliminary design review meeting in August, and will be meeting in September for a Maintenance Working Group meeting. SURFACE CONCEPT TEAM (SCT) Kyle Andrews (ORD) is the NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team (SCT) for Collaborative Decision Making (CDM). His report is below: After a summer hiatus due to SWAP season at the ATCSCC, the Surface Concept team resumed activity with a scheduled telcon in mid-September to discuss Collaborative Site Implementation Team meetings anticipated for next year. The team is planning an on site meeting at CLT to observe how the ongoing ATD-2 project is being integrated at that airport, with the date expected to be late October or early November. The latest taskings from the CSG are expected to be finalized soon to give the team some direction going forward into 2019. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR) Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Article 114 Representative for NATCA. His report is below: On Aug. 27, two new facilities came online and joined the STARS family. MLU and BGM both transitioned from ARTS IIE to STARS with very few issues. NATCA TAMR SMEs led by Ross Costa (RSW) and Richard Thomas (GEG) were on-site to ensure deployment of the new system would come off without a hitch. Thank you to both facilities and the SMEs. Collaboration continues to ensure these transitions are smooth.