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· The news for the IDSR program has not changed in the past week. This week we will start off with the IDSR program office recount of the weekly telcon: o Program Office and NATCA participated in the PMR at AWI last week. The PMR went well and Program Office came away with Action Items. Action Items are in the p rocess of being reviewed and assigned. o The briefing to the JRC on the proposed strategy was originally scheduled for 10/28/15 but that date was unachievable; the current plan is to be on the December JRC calendar. o Until a JRC decision is made to pr oceed forward with the waterfall, the Program Office will not start work on any new sites. · Program Office will continue to work on current sites, which include: SGF, MIA, PVD, SLC, I90, PIT, SCT, PHL, P80, FSM, DSM, MCO, TUS, L30, PBI · Doug Balint (IDSR Program Manager) is scheduled to meet with the Vice President for PMO today and the PMO PMR on Thursday this week on strategy in preparation for the JRC decision. · The program office will be working with AWI to complete hardware installation for new facilities at TUS, L30 and PBI. · NATCA IDSR article 48 lead Richie Smith will be attending a meeting at headquarters on November 3rd and hopefully will have some news to report. The FAA plans to revisit all of the above listed " current sites", at the urging of NATCA, to brief them in person of the future expectations of the program. NAS MONITORING EQUIPMENT (NME): Corrie Conrad (PDX) is NATCA's Article 48 Representative for NME. Her update for this week is next. · Ms. Conrad will be meeting with the Program Manager, Aubrey Wiggins, at the Program Management office for a few hours this week when she is in Washington, DC for another event to discuss how the NME is used on a daily basis in a tower environment to give him more insight moving forward. · A safety panel is scheduled on Dec. 1 and 2nd of which Robert Utley (S&T) will attend in person and Ms. Conrad will be dialing in on the phone to attend. · UIC – Universal Interlock Controller o No update on the UIC. o They are still trying to schedule a date to install the UIC into the current (old) tower at SFO so they may gain experience with the equipment before moving to a new tower. NAS VOICE SYSTEM (NVS): Jon Shedden (ZFW) represents NATCA on t he NVS as our Article 48 Representative. His report for this week is below. · Mr. Shedden and the NVS User Team were at the second NVS Air Traffic Early User Involvement Event (EUIE) at the FAA's technical center in Atlantic City, NJ all week. The NVS User Team members are: o Chris Bakke (SLC) o Bill Canning (A90) o Nate Johns (ZAB) o Chris Lloyd (ZDC) o Teah Lord (F11) o Juan Serna - Spuler (SFO) · The team looked at all aspects of the user interface including changes brought