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§ The Technical Center, Raytheon and the Program Management office responded by allocating all available resources to collect, investigate and resolve the issues being reported at SCT. § The most troubling issues were tracking problems, "XXX" altitudes, slew failures and frozen 7777 dat a blocks. § The support organizations began having daily meetings with the site and within a few days significant progress was made in all areas and several adaptation changes had been loaded. By the end of the week enough progress had been made that fall ing back to CARTS was no longer being discussed as a likely outcome. Support resources remain on - site and we will continue to work with the site to correct reported problems. o Representatives of Air Traffic, Tech Ops and the Program Office met at the Po tomac TRACON for a transition kickoff meeting. The general format of the transition was discussed at length and a first draft schedule and plan was prepared for PCT. The transition is expected to begin in February 2016. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 update submitted by Scott Robillard - K90 o August 31, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90) dialed into the weekly TAMR staff meeting. o August 31, 2015, The entire Segment 2 team dialed into the weekly NATCA SME telcon. o August 31, 2015, Scott Robillard (K 90), Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) dialed into the Digitizer Implementation Meeting. o September 1, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90), Time Poer (ABI) Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) dialed into the TLH SR - 8/Mode S Prep for System Performan ce Verification for Mode S and ASR - 8, in preparation for TDX - 2000 installation. o September, 1, 2015, Jim VanZee (GRR) dialed into the FWA STAMP Review and hardware checklist telcon. Once the STAMP is complete, FWA's STARS G4 ELITE will be ordered and sc heduled for delivery. o September 1, 2015, Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) dialed into the CTD In Service Decision (ISD) Pre Meeting. ISD will occur after Key sitting at both a Mode - S and ATC - BI5 sites. o September 2, 2015, Jim VanZee (GRR) an d Dan Stefko (Region X) attended the TOL Initial Site Survey (ISS) for their STARS G4 ELITE system. o September 2, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90), Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) dialed into the CAM Access Review telcon. NATCA had made a very stron g point of the tool and access level requirements for the new CTD system. It is NATCA position that the technicians at different levels service need the appropriate access level to ensure proper maintenance. AJV - 147 initially attempted set all significant tools at level NATCA deemed unacceptable. o September 2, 2015, Richard Thomas (GEG) dialed into the FSW Adaptation Kick Off meeting. this is the start of the building of the adaptation that will allow for air traffic use of the STARS G4 ELITE as FSW.