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forward. All in all, the consolidation and transitions commenced and finished without any major issues. These five facilities should take pride in a job well done. Without collaboration on a local and national level, a month such as this could not and would not happen. Mr. Rose took some time off during the reporting period but did travel twice for meetings in Boston and San Diego. In Boston, Ross Costa (RSW) and Mr. Rose attended the quarterly Operating System (OS) migration meeting. Discussed new AT Coach, AT Pilot and AT Prepare training was discussed and will have to go out prior to the OS transition, which will start deployment in early 2021. In San Diego, Mr. Rose was a participant in the quarterly surveillance meeting with Eric Labardini (SBS). SCT has a new radar feed from NAS North Island (ASR11) which improves surveillance on the San Diego final. The primary is not being used at this time, but the secondary is in use and providing substantially to the FUSION presentation. Talks are under way with the DOD to improve the primary portion of the radar. In addition, a report from AJW on the ongoing radar optimization was presented. Joe Yannone (Region X), also in attendance, reported that this effort will be completed in July or August 2019. The next radar optimization effort will be focused on NCT and N90. The first meeting with NCT will be at the beginning of 2019. We coordinated with S46 about the installation of hardware needed for automatic updates to altimeter within STARS. This will also occur at the beginning of 2019. Main Display Monitor (MDM) issues have crept up once again, this time at D10. An MDM was reported fading to black and then returning to full service. Second level engineering (TSLE) and TAMR PMO are investigating. If there are any issues related to MDM or STARS, please do not hesitate to email TAMR@natca.net. TAMR NATCA Training submitted by Ross Costa (RSW) Mr. Costa traveled to Las Vegas to attend the Communicating For Safety Conference in October. He assisted Raytheon at their exhibit with a demonstration of MARS, a prototype control display workstation. Mr. Costa had conversations with controllers attending the conference on the pros and cons of this display system. We asked controllers to take short surveys and advise us what we could do better and what the controller workforce would like to see in the STARS platform going forward. Mr. Costa traveled to Marlboro, Mass., to discuss the new version of the Plain Language Document (PLD). Mr. Kyle Ness and Mr. Costa have been working with the Agency to develop a new training package for all future software changes to STARS. The intent is to demonstrate the changes in a controller-centric format so that the workforce can be easily trained on changes. During this meeting, we finalized the latest R7 Software Drop training document that will soon be fielded, and how this information will be disseminated. In early November, Mr. Costa traveled to Grand Canyon, Ariz. (GCN) and Traverse City, Mich. (TCV) to discuss the training these sites will receive as remote towers from an adjacent, non- overlying TRACON. The discussions revolved around the type of training that will be received at

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