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This was also the week of IDAC training/implementation at ZAB and their associated towers which are ABQ, PHX, ELP, and TUS. The Ops team was at all the towers for the week as well as at the Tech Center. Both TMC's at ZAB and controllers at the towers were trained on the IDAC system throughout the week. At some locations SME's were trained and will be continuing the training process after that week. Overall, the training was very well received, and Nov. 19 was the date agreed upon to start limited test usage of the IDAC scheduling system by the towers. During the week of Nov. 12, the 4.8.3 system was tested again, this time at ZLA and ZOA. This enhanced testing of new releases prior to national release is part of the new sustainment testing that the Ops team and Program Office is performing. The intent is to get all the identified issues corrected prior to all the facilities coming up on a new build. The overall system looked good in the support testing, but the similar issue that was found previously with scheduling into an arrival system that uses an arrival rate was seen at ZOA. Although this is not new in 4.8.3, ZOA chose to keep the new build on the support lab only until this issue is fixed. This issue will be fixed as part of a patch prior to national release, and the Ops team will return to ZOA to ensure it is working correctly. ZLA was informed of the issue but as they have been working with it already, they chose to step up to the new 4.8.3 system to continue testing. Leidos has taken the information from both keysite activities and the issues that were identified should be corrected. The NEC group was at the Tech Center again continuing work on the PHL XM adaptation. There were a lot of discussions about how the various labs could work together for the NEC work and plans to accomplish this began to be finalized. There will be a follow-up meeting in February 2019, with facilities to discuss the plan moving forward. Before then, the NEC group will brief the NEC Collaborative workgroup on the plan to move forward. A meeting was held at D01 where the message of iTBO and the identified facilities for TSAS was conveyed. NATCA Ops team SME Brian Reddy was in attendance and helped the Program Office brief the facilities on TSAS work that has been accomplished and some of the plans moving forward. Metroplex representation was there as well as a number of people were in attendance. The next day the iTBO group visited ZDV. These initial meetings will be followed up by other visits, and representatives from D01 and ZDV will be identified to help work on the development of TSAS for Denver. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Article 114 Representative for TFDM. His report is below: The TFDM Ops team has participated in about six scenario building/test evaluation events at the Tech Center over the past few months. The goal of these events is to get an early look at the system, help the test team build both operationally realistic and milestone driven test scenarios. This will help both teams in the future months during testing at the Tech Center and in PHX prior to IOC. Another goal is to ascertain the "health" of the system and to identify gaps in the development. So far, dozens of discrepancy reports (DRs) have been found and

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