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Closed PTRs that have been open since the S4 baseline have been corrected within the software. System Technical Reports Working Group (STRWG) – Stakeholders are continuing to review proposed software modifications to STARS. The first modification, on Approach Runway Verification (ARV), needed agreement before the end of November. The second proposed modification for MCP RADAR Status ICONS show passed when no monitoring is active. Safety Risk Management Panel (SRM) – I participated on the 6191.5 SRM telecon where stakeholders are reviewing changes to the certification of ADSB and if any impact from these certification changes could impact the NAS. In addition, Mr. Kendrick participated on the STARS OS Day, SBS, TAMR Look Ahead, and weekly OSF Technical telecons. 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: The week of Oct. 29, we had a TSAS Leadership meeting at the Tech Center and TSAS testing. There was a large discussion with almost all groups that are working on TSAS about the work that will needs to be accomplished in the next year. This was good to have all the groups together to discuss all the moving parts. Additionally, testing in the NexGen lab was conducted the following two days. During the testing of this adaptation it was found that IDST available space is negatively affected since PHX RBFM arrival system runs with a set arrival rate. The system still schedules correctly but red/green available space is not correct, and because of this the installation on Ops was held off and a ticket was opened to address this. The new 4.8.3 System Ops evaluations were conducted at ZID and ZTL. This allowed for testing of the two connected systems which is important due to the connectivity of T2T for IDAC scheduling. The initial testing in the support lab went well and the new availability to dynamically switch between IDAC adjacent scheduling in EDC (MIT) and an arrival system went well. When the system was loading on Ops there was an issue that was encountered because of a dependency of how the system is brought up. ZID ended up not having the ACM GUIs for ATL and CLT. The system was fixed when restarted and the issue was identified for future releases of 4.8.3. Overall the keysite went well and both ZTL and ZID stayed on the new build. During the week of Nov. 5, the NEC group was at the Tech Center to work on the PHL adaptation with support from SLE, Cavan Solutions, Leidos, etc. As well as working on the PHL adaptation, the group worked with others towards the eventual lab testing of the PHL XM system at the Tech Center. This is all working towards a full test of the system at the Tech Center in March 2019.

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