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• Briefed Jeff Richards (NATCA) on UAS activities. • Traveled to CRP and met with Customs and Border Protection at CRP and received a briefing on their UAS operations. • Met wit h the Lone Star UAS Test Site. o Mr. Weidner sends his thanks to Evan White (CRP Facrep) and CW Baker (CRP Staff Support Sp ecialist) for arranging these meetings. • Toured CRP ATCT to discuss UAS in their operation. • Reviewed a draft of the national Global Hawk COA. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM): Eric Owens (I90) is NATCA's Article 48 Representative for TBFM. Mr. Owens' upd ate for this week is below. • Last week Mr. Owens was in New York to attend a TBFM kickoff meeting with ZNY, N90 , and PHL. o The three mentioned facilities and surrounding en route facilities will begin determining the best way to proceed forward using TBFM f or New York and Philadelphia. o The meeting went very well and was a good start to this initiative. • We believe that if we can get TBFM to work in New York, it will work throughout the NAS. • NATCA SMEs from SNA, SCT a nd SAN conducted IDAC training. o The trainin g was completed at SCT and SAN and the team is working with SNA to complete their training. o IDAC is currently being used at ZLA, LAX and BUR. The plan is to expand to SCT, SAN, SNA and LAS within the next thirty days. • Mr. Owens participated in a co uple of TSAS Telcons last week. o The FAA and contractors seem to want to condu ct all the business on Telcons. However, Mr. Owens has informed the Agency the team cannot make deductions without seeing the fu nctionality on a STARS display. o The team is attempting to a dd controllers to the workgroup to ensure we have a good product moving forward. In addition, after a schedule delay, two play d ates with Raytheon were missed. Mr. Owens has told the FAA that this is not acceptable and the play dates need to be rescheduled . TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) represents the NATCA bargaining units as the Art icle 48 Representative to TFDM. Mr. Baugh's report for this week is next. • TDFM: Nothing new to report. • Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS): Met with the EWR AEFS team Tuesday & Wednesday at the Tech Center to disc uss their needs moving forward. The team was able to address a few issues in the lab with the help of TSLE and those fixes will be going into the next build du e out in early to mid - Octobe r. • Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System (EFSTS): Final requirements are on schedule for later this month. The Tech Ops and Ops Manual should be completed by late October. Keypad replacement should begin in early 2016.