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program as a whole. This class is intended to give site and advanced look at how IOC will be achieved, how their training should look, and what they need to do to be prepared for tra nsition from ARTS IIE to STARS. o September 17, 2015, Tim Poer dialed into a telcon with GGG to resolve a Parrot issue in preparation for STARS. o September 18, 2015, at 5:57am CST, EVV became the newest facility to join the STARS G4 ELITE family. § It has been a long road for EVV and the TAMR program went above and beyond to correct an historically poor performing radar which, in the end, enabled the site to transition. § On site f or the transition to assist the facility were Chris Hilbert (PHL), Scott Trafton (A90) and Bill Spence (BTV). § Over the seven months, the entire SEG2 has helped lift EVV from a failed transition to STARS based on a failing ASR8 in March 2015 to a success ful transition on Friday, September 18, 2015. § Congratulation to EVV. · STARS/TAMR Phase 1 Update Submitted by Jimmie White - PHL o Monday 9/14 : Consolida ted TAMR Weekly Staff Meeting. Risk Mitigation for " Merge " build (6R4D1b) is in test startin g 9/1 - 10/8. This is the second risk mitigation e vent following the ELITE test. AT SMEs will be testing on 9/22. Software for the MDM3 (V2 .02) will be replace by V2.03. V2.03 will allow more data to be received from the maintenance laptop, in an effor t to root out the causes of the system wide anomalies. V2.03 has been delayed but will be delivered on 9/25. The Risk Mitigation Test Team has not given a green light to run V2.03 during the event. They didn ' t want an y prototyping during the te st. Cleve land I.O.C. (originally 9/19) has been pushed back approximately 10 days, due to HVAC issues in the new building, according to the NATCA P.O.C. L30/LAS site imp lementation review (SIR) 9/23. R27 (R27D7) will be nationally released 9/29 - 12/9. This will a llow Legacy STARS s ites to upgrade to TAMR STARS. LAF I.O.C. 10/9. o Tuesday 9/15: Daytona Beach Joint Site Sur vey begins today through 9/17. MDM meeting. AZO Keysite begins for MDM4 in the G4 configuration. MDM3 issues still mount. TSLE still want s to keep turning off LCD Flicker Control (LFC) on the table. Both Esterline (formerly BARCO) and TSLE believe the creation of LFC has degraded the inter wor kings of the display. Mr. White re - iterated NATCAs position to leave LFC in play. Turning off LF C creates a far less desirable condition than the current M DM complaints for fused sites. They will be requesting a meeting with NATCA to discuss other alternatives. o Wednesday 9/16 : TAMR Readout Telcon. Phase 1 items above were covered, but no add itions. Report from F11, controllers are not happy with the MDM3s performance in their lighting configuration. MDM install is ongoing, once done they will attempt to raise the lighting to change the mood according t o F11 NATCA P.O.C., Teah Lord. Control lers do not feel they should have to change their lighting