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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), Kyle 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. o The TAMR3SEG2 NATCA team works with the agency to deploy STARS G4 ELITE systems to replace all ARTS IIE systems, certain STARS G1/2 Legacy systems via tech refresh and Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) development and deployment. Highlights of weekly activity are: § On Tuesday, November 3rd, and Wednesday, November 4th, the SEG2 team met with the full deployment team from the TAMR program off ice for two days worth of meetings on lessons learned, messaging and strategic planning moving forward. To date, the ARTS IIE replacement program with G4 STARS ELITE is on time and on budget. All milestones has bee reached and we are poised to transition 2 4 more sites in 2016; § The team participated in the Common Terminal Digitizer Risk Board and the TAMR Risk Board; § More work was put into the K90 and the process of being moved from the STARS SEG2 waterfall to a Phase 1 F&E project as part of realign ment to A90; § BGR began adaptation work via their OSF Adaptation Kick Off Meeting; § GSO continued planning for IOC on December 10, 2015; § PWM began adaptation work via their OSF Adaptation Kick Off Meeting; § CRW began adaptation work via their OSF Adaptation Kick Off Meeting; § Work continues to try and improve the performance of the ASR8 s across the NAS. To do so, there are ASR - 8 Digitizer Service Area Implementation Monthly Teleconference to track progress. · STARS/TAMR Phase 1 Update subm itted by Jimmie White - PHL o Touched base with TLSEs (software lead) Rob Padilla, and a couple of things came to light. § First, while facilities capable of upgrading to R2A (TAMR archive) may seem desirable, they will undoubtedly regress in overall sat isfaction. § There are tracker improvements, and ATPA upgrade s that didn ' t make it into R2A. § I90 in particular would suffer in this regard, with the tracker u pgrades added in R27. Not to mention, there is no training delta to brief controllers on TA MR additions (EFSL etc.). o Touched base with TBFM Article 48 Rep Eric Owens on Terminal Sequencing And Spacing (TSAS) CHI evaluation in Raytheon Marlboro. Productive week, but without enough CHI demos, only one consensus was reached with regard to usin g TSAS within terminal , and that was the slot marker. Being that a data block work group