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capability for each airport. o Communicating for Safety 2016: SBS does intend to provide outreach at the event once again with an SBS/ADS - B booth. Coordination between NATCA and the Agency will begin soon. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MO DERNIZATION REPL ACEMENT (TAMR): Mitch Herrick (MIA) is the Article 48 Representative for TAMR. Below are reports from Mr. Herrick and TAMR Team Leads. · This week was shortened by a Federal holiday on Monday and Annual le ave for Mr. Herrick on Friday. o During the week there was a great deal of work done on Section 804 as well as participation on telcons related to tech refresh kick off meetings, Initial Site survey inbriefs, initial site survey outbriefs as well as internal coordination with the TA MR and 804 program management. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 1 update submitt ed by Doug Peterson - D10 o In a holiday shortened week, segment 1 conducted regular TAMR IO C meetings with, SCT, A80, M98 and T75. o Preliminary testing of R3a software at SCT has demonstrated so much expected benefit that discussions opened with the T echnical Center to accelerate delivery to an unprecedented level. Formal testing concludes next Thursday, Oct 22. Plans are being made to have all paperwork and authorizations pre - approved so that field installation could potentially take place at SCT as e arly as Friday night. This is a process that normally takes about 2 weeks. o A follow on telcon with A80 addressed a software problem that prevents proper functioning of ATPA under some circumstances. The source of the problem was found, but will require a software modification that cannot be done before Atlanta ' s planned IOC on Oct 21. This could impact the facility ' s plan to open in STARS using the FMA function rather than the current PRM. Satisfactory work around procedures seem to be in place to allow A80 to deploy on the current schedule, but testing and analysis continue. o Brian Reddy, D01 represented Segment 1 for NATCA at the regular PTR prioritization meeting in Atlantic City on Thursday this week. This activity is critical to the build - plannin g process to ensure that software resources are applied to the elements that NATCA considers most critical to continued successful deployment of the STARS platform. o Next week will be Atlanta TRACON IOC and formal testing for R3a software. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 update submitted by Scott Robillard - K90 o The TAMR3SEG2 team is comprised of the Scott Robillard (K90) Lead, Bill Spence (BTV) Training Lead, Jim VanZee (GRR), Richard Thomas (GEG), Tim Poer (ABI), Mike Wilson (CAK), K yle Ness (M98), Ross Costa (RSW) and Chris Falcone (MDT) from Air Traffic and Engineers Joe Yannone, Dan Stefko, Colin Ngai and Frank Stahler from Region X.