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• Other issues worked: o Review of modifications being made to headsets in the field o Coordination for upcoming Air Traffic Early U ser Involvement Event (EUIE) o Coordination with PHL regar ding headset model availability INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT ( IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) is the Article 48 Representative on the IDS - R Project. Mr. Smith's report to the membership is below. • Results of the Emergency Release 4 testing at PVD and PHL were all positive. Everything that could be tested at those facilities was, leaving a small number of untested fixes that will be looked at during testing at other facilities. o The test team moved on to test the build at MLI and DAB this week and as of COB Friday no failures or problems were reported. o The program office is trying to achieve four IOCs before the end of FY15. These facilities are JAX, MLI, CLE and DAB. The latest news out of CLE is th at the commissioning of the new tower is delayed into next FY. • A team from the program office will be visiting each of these facilities during the coming week. o NATCA ' s Article 48 Representative, Richie Smith, was invited to attend these " pre - IOC " meetings but can only attend two : CLE and JAX. • The program office is still trying to create a new waterfall but not knowing what the budget will be next FY makes that task very difficult. No further news about the budget and its impact on the program is expected un til the last week of September. INDUSTRY: NATCA's involvement with industry associatio ns and companies remain strong. Below are updates for several committees: • RTCA SC - 214: Scott Conde (ZOA) is NATCA's Representative to this RTCA Sub - Committee. This gr oup address air traffic regulations and procedures for oceanic along with DataComm activities. Mr. Conde's update on the SC - 214 work is below : o Mr. Conde just returned from the Plenary meeting for SC214 in D . C . last week. The message set is finalized and pa ckaged for FRAC. o There is still work remaining for A - IM and that should be via telcon in the next two weeks, but it should be ready for the FRAC submission as well. While there were some items that we worked " collaboratively " to meet the needs of all stake holders and countries, Mr. Conde truly believes the package as a whole is acceptable for our BUE s into the future, including the domestic applications. The OPLINK meeting in October will review and approve all of the existing work and job orders other than those coming out of the formal FRAC process. o With regard to future work for the SC214 work : • There is only one remaining meeting scheduled to finalize the work and the package. • The December Plenary meeting will be to address any of the State comments that come out of FRAC for presentation to the Commission.