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DSP and whe re the team wants to go moving forward into next year. o DSP replacement waterfall is still moving ahead as planned with PHL and EWR being key sites, and the other New York area airports following. o The SVT group discussed how the wake RECAT categorie s would be displayed on the monitors as well as other filtering options that could be locally adapted. · Thursday - Met again with the EWR team and Mike Schrempp. o The group was able to go to the TRACON and the tower cab to observe the morning rus hes and see first hand how AEFS benefits their operational awareness and efficiency. o Overall the meetings went very well and EWR, and Mr. Baugh gained a great deal of information from watc hing PHX work with the system. Mike Schrempp and his team impres sed us all with their willingness to work with and grow into AEFS. · Friday - Traveled home to Houston, no other meetings. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR): Mitch Herrick (MIA) is the Article 48 Repr esentative on the TAMR progra m. Mr. Herrick and other TAMR Team leads have forwarded the reports below for this week's update. · Mr. Herrick was on Annual Leave the entire week, however he still participated in some critical daily telcons as well as Section 804 activities. Sec tion 804 is nearing some recommendations on Cleveland and Michigan area facilities and there has been some resolution between NATCA and the Agency on the methodology fo r determining future staffing. That issue has been holding up the recommendation process . Along with Don Chapman (PHL) Mr. Herrick briefed NGL RVP Bryan Zilonis as well as President Rinaldi and EVP Gilbert on the activities and up coming recommendations. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 1 update submitted by Doug Peterson - D10. o At the 3 0 - hour mark the STARS transition at Atlanta TRACON (A80), the seventh of eleven segment 1 sites, is going extremely well. Jon Bealles and his SME cadre did an exceptional job preparing their controllers. They are well trained, know what to expect, and are actively engaged in reporting and analyzing anomalies. The Gulf Coast OSF team, led by Chris Hannah, had built an extremely strong adaptation and ha s addressed each trouble ticket so efficiently that there is no backlog. This is the second of four planned test runs at A80, but if things continue as smoothly as they have so far, Atlanta could remain on STARS and render the next two events unnecessary. o A new STARS software delivery, R3a, was tested at the Atlantic City Tech Center and declared operational ly suitable. This is an extremely important improvement, and critical to the continued success at So C al TRACON. The improvements to tracking are considered so important that the software has already been installed at SCT. An approval process that normally takes weeks was compressed to less than two days to get this critical software deployed. o The TAMR team met with Chicago TRACON and related towers for a