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software hoping to gather a more accurate picture of our fatigue risk. The FRMT is in the process of compiling past modeling data for input into the new model hoping to find synergy. The FRMT office continues to use the sleep data from the Controller Study completed in 2012 for identifying Fatigue Risk. Lastly the FRMT continues to do apple to apples comparisons with SAFTE - FAST while we learn how these models can meet our needs. o Workload and follow on study – Mr. Barrett has begun pushing for follow up studies. There is a need to verify the efficacy of the fatigue work rule that have been in place now for a few years and the ones we instituted this year. There appears to be some money if it is done in house. The t eam also want s to do some baseline workload analysis. ANGC may help us with this as it bleeds over into HF as well. o Alertness application - Dr. Wesensten introduced us to some of her old colleagues from DOD and they had developed a native android app t hat measures alertness. We can't use it due to the Agency not having a way to develop resident apps. Infinna only does web apps and they are who we have to use for now. The DOD is giving us the code in JAVA so that CSSI and Infinna can program the app. The hope is to have this done by CFS. The app will take sleep and wake times and then calculate expected performance up through 48 hours into the future. It also can take caffeine inputs and adjust expected performance based on that. Should be a de cent produc t. INTEGRATED DISPLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R): Richie Smith (N90) is the IDS - R Article 48 Representative. Mr. Smith's report to the membership is below. · While what future the NIDS program will have is still waiting to be determined at the Join t Resources Council meeting on October 28th the Program Office (PO) has put a plan together to prioritize six facilities on their "Path to IOC." o These facilities, alphabetically, are: DSM, MCO, MIA, PHL, PIT and PVD. The PO i s going to start coordinati on with those facilities about dates an d schedules for moving forward. · NATCA will be attending a briefing on the JRC decision on November 3rd at FAA headquarters in Washington , D . C. · During the national IDSR telcon on Tuesday the PO announce d its prioritization of the above listed six facilities and the postponement of follow up visits to the following facilities: P80, SGF, FSM, I90, SCT and S56. o What this means to these facilities is as yet unknown. To further confuse issues the Database Development Engineering Team briefed that their priority facilities for database development are SGF and FSM. o The following day the Program Manager sent an email out to a number of facilities telling them that their database collections would " stand d own. " o The list of these facilities was not previously coordinate with NATCA and has not yet been confirmed but at this point it is believed that the following facilities/networks were sent this message: D01/DEN, LIT, MEM and R90/OMA. o So, what does this mean? That's a very good and as of right now unanswerable question. We expect to learn more during this week's national telcon. · Regardless of the JRC decision , it seems that the program will have little impact for the rest of calendar year 201 5. The combination of the holiday moratoriums and the lead time required to coordinate site visits leaves very