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• PHX – Nothing new • CLE – Nothing new • LAS – Jamaal Haltom (LAS FacRep) and an FLM made a trip to CLT to observe the system the week of Aug. 20. The next step is for LAS to take the information from the trip and make the determination of whether or not they believe the system will meet the facility's needs. • SFO – Nothing new • EWR – Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) Site visits to all three Houston area facilities (ZHU, IAH, HOU), as well as S46, are happening in September. During these visits, we will demo SVT to the sites, help them work through any physical configuration issues, as well as leave them with a demo system in order to train and gain efficiency. Once they are comfortable, each site will have to make their own Initial Operating Capability (IOC) call. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT/TERMINAL SEQUENCING AND SPACING (TBFM/TSAS) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM/TSAS. His report is below: During the week of Aug. 6, Ops Team members were at the Tech Center for TBFM Sustainment testing as an ongoing commitment to consistently test TBFM new builds prior to Key sites and National releases. This Sustainment testing is now scheduled once a month at a minimum, and the objective is to have consistent Ops input into the testing process. This is also done with the help of support personnel who have historical knowledge of not only the TBFM system, but detailed processes that have been used in the past for TBFM testing. That same week, TBFM Ops Team members visited ZBW in support of Northeast Corridor (NEC) work for PHL Metering. The initial intent of the adjacent site visits was to gather information about the current adjacent support for metering, and discuss future work with the facility representatives. The following week, the Ops team was at the Atlantic City Leidos location for the new 4.8 release, Ops Evaluation testing. This was the second Ops Eval of the 4.8 system and there were a number of fixes and advancements that were evaluated. A large enhancement that has been requested and will be part of the 4.8 system is the availability of IDAC to be used dynamically between arrival system and EDC (Miles-in-trail) system scheduling. Currently, IDAC is hard-set to schedule into one system or the other; but with the new enhancement facilities, it will be able to move back and forth between Arrival and EDC system IDAC scheduling. This means that

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