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headquarters last week. The meeting was supposed to be a follow up to the October 29 JRC meeting but the program was not given time for their discussion list and it is not projected to be addressed until late December at the earli est. · Below is an excerpt from an email, sent out by the program office, describing the forecast for FY16: o At this time, IDS - R has not been given any direction to change it s current objectives or course. The APB milestone is still to complete prog ram installation of 71 networks by July 2017. o As you are aware, the IDSR Program Office halted the IDSR deployment wate rfall due to software concerns. With the release of SSM - IDSR - 011, the IDS - R Program believes that the software is now stable and is beg inning to work with various stakeholders to restart the deployment schedule. The NIDS deployment schedule rotation has not changed and Program Office is working with its stakeholders to coordinate with the following sites to achieve ORD in FY16. § PIT, PHL , MCO, MIA, PVD, SGF, P80, SCT, I90, FSM, S56, DSM, PBI ( TRACON ), TUS, L30/LAS · Beginning in January, IDS - R will be contacting the following facilities to begin discussions about schedules and planned activities. o N90, R90, ZSU, YNG, LEX, LIT, M98, MEM, D01, GSO, ACY, D21, BDL, ICT, RDU, ORF, TOL, AVL, C90, TUL, TYS, MCI, CVG, CRP, SDF, SYR, HSV, MOB, A11, MGM · The program office has stated that their goal is to get 29 networks (sites) to ORD status in FY16. This lofty goal would bring the to tal NIDS ORDs to 41. · In review: The IDS - R program office claims that they will restart the waterfall, in January, after a six month stoppage, and with an as of yet undefined budget cut attain the above mentioned goals. NATCA will do its best to pro tect our membership from being goaded into anything that they are not comfortable with and will support the refusal of any facility moving forward if they are not completely comfortable with a decision to do so. NAS VOICE SYSTEM (NVS): Jon Shedden (ZFW) i s the NVS Article 48 Representative. The NVS update for the membership is below. · Mr. Shedden was at Harris in Melbourne, FL all week. The following are the items discussed in Melbourne: o Latest NVS prototype touch screens o Concentric knobs for v olume/side - tone controls o Override call progress tones (origination/destination) o Volume control audio delay (existing PTR) o FAVES - VSCS interoperability o PC Position User Interface demo o NVS Air Traffic Early User Involvement Event observation consoli dation NEXTGEN: Mel Davis (SCT) is the National NextGen Representative in accordance with Article 114 of the NATCA/FAA Agreement. Please see below for this week's update. · The primary activity for NextGen this week was the annual ATCA conference i n D . C.