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Looking forward, during the next 8 months, another 11 facilities will join them. Those sites are: • EVV 9/18/15, GSO 12/11/15, TYS 1/15/2016, FAR 2/5/2016, ACY 3/11/2016, CHA 3/14/2016, GPT 3/18/2016, AMA 4/29/2016, GEG 5/6/2016, GRB 5/13/2016, MYR 5/13/2016 • STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 update by Scott Robillard , K90 o By the end of May 2016, t he TAMR3SEG2 t eam will have replaced 22 ARTS IIE out of a total of 91 ARTS IIEs in the NAS. This could not have been done without a robust team of NATCA representatives that includes both controllers and NATCA represented engineers. Thank you to all of those who have he lped NATCA through this difficult task. o September 8, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90) attended a NATCA NE Regional Meeting . o September 9, 2015, Bill Spence (BTV) attend ed the training kick - off meeting for CHA. o September 9, 2016, Dan Stefko (Region X) attended th e CHS Joint Site Survey (JSS) for the CHS STARS G4 ELITE System. Scott Robillard (K90) joined via telcon. o September 9, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90), Joe Yannone ( R egion X) dialed into the Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) RIO Board. o September 9, 2015, Bill Sp ence (BTV), dialed into the last EVV IOC transitional Telcon. EVV is schedule for IOC on September 18, 2015. o September 10, 2015, Bill Spence (BTV) attended the training kick - off meeting for ACY. o September 10, 2015, Tim Poer (ABI) and Dan Stefko (Region X) attended on Initial Site Survey (ISS) for the GRR STARS G4 ELITE System. o September 10, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90), Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) dialed into the TLH Radar Sys Perf Verification Readiness telcon. The TLH ASR8 requires digitizatio n prior to achieving IOC on STARS. o September 10, 2015. Scott Robillard (K90) dialed into the ELITE Opportunity - CCP 1085 Technical Interchange Meeting. This telcon was to answer question for the vendor on contractual changes for specific sites that will t ransition from Legacy G1/2 STARS to G4 STARS ELITE. o September 11, 2015, Scott Robillard (K90), Bill Spence (BTV), David Bridges (SAV) Joe Yannone and Frank Stahler (Region X) conducted a NATCA only telcon do discuss what NATCA position will be for the conf iguration of the Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) for operation testing in June 2016. • STARS/TAMR Phase 1 update by Jimmie White , K90 o Delays in R4 roll - out has caused confusion and discontent with the air traffic folks from A90. Boston Tower (BOS) wants to keep Direct Radar Feed (DRF), but no current software build wi ll support it. The program as a whole did a poor job managing the situation. It wasn ' t on anyone 's radar to bring up ; facilities may lose DRF until R4 comes on line. F11 will not be able to come up on X2000 raid s, because of the delays to R4. Instead, F11 and A90 will receive the Dell RAIDS until