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and Section 804 activities. o He also had a meeting with representat ives of an LLC hired by Grant County, WA where they proffered twelve letters from stakeholders speaking in opposition to any potential realignmen t of the MWH approach control. o Mr. Herrick also participated in several planning meetings with TAMR program management as well as participated in two days of Year Three planning for sec tion 804 activities into 2016. · STARS/TAMR OSF/Multi Unit update submitted by Candy Barr - NEOSF o Monday – Thursday: Matt Thomas and Greg Jahn traveled to Southeast OSF to p rovide yearly MSAW refresher training. o Monday: Mr. Barr attended the TAMR weekly staff meeting o Tues day: Mr . Barr attended the MDM Telecom o Wednesday: Ms. Barr attended the S6R4 DSF & Remote TCW OT&E Telecom Lab upgrades to meet the future needs of OT &E were discussed o Thursday: All OSF specialists attended the weekly Technical Telecom o Steve Sims and Ms. Barr attended the PTRWG Telecom to rank PTR of interest to the OSF ' s 44 site rules have been ranked and funded to be included in software in the S6R6 time frame. o Friday: Ms. Barr attended the TAMR TAGUP Telecom § Steve Sims and Ms. Barr at tended the Site Rules Telecom. The goal of the group is to streamline the process in all areas and have a tracking system in place that will allow spe cialist to see where their requests are in the process. o Thursday – Monday: Randy Garcia and Todd Rhea tra veling to M98 for an IOC Event. Michael Tate remains at Denver OSF to provide testing support to Mr. Garcia and Mr. Rhea. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 1 Update submitted by Doug Peterson - D10 o Start with the good news. The Minneapolis TRACON (M98) STARS IOC transition completed on schedule Friday night and now six of the eleven ARTS3E TRACONS have achieved IOC. The first 30 seconds of the tr ansition was more exciting than we had anticipated, as a hardware switch failed and a transition that is expected to take 500 milliseconds ended up taking about a minute, but the rest of the first IOC event at M98 was essentially flawless. Three minor adap tation adjustments were identified and will be loaded in time for IOC event 2 on Monday evening. o Continuous STARS operations at SoCal have not been as smooth. SCT has continued to be the most challenging and troubled transition we have faced. § Added to the ongoing tracking discrepancies, SCT encountered a significant software failure this week that caused the loss of a radar display for about a minute and a half. The failure was triggered by a keyboard entry that has been done thousands of times, but in this case the exact right circumstances existed to cause a display reset. The cause of the failure has been identified and will be fixed in the next software delivery, due for field implementation in November.