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platforms. This initiative will not only reduce cost, but it will eliminate automations issues between DoD and FAA faci lities while increasing efficiency. The latest progression down this path was the Joint Site Survey (JSS) at FAY where three DoD Remote Towers will be reconnected to FAY after over a decade of ARTS/STARS automations issues. This initiative has already been accomplished at SAV and similar initiatives are underway at COS and HSV. o Work also continues at Legacy STARS Sites such as Y90, R90 , and SBA on their upgrade from G1/G2 to G4 STARS ELITE. In April, the SEG2 team will be in ITH and TUL for their JSSs. o Look ing forward, SEG2 is preparing for the next four (4) transitions from ARTS IIE to STARS at AMA on 5/2/2016, GEG on 5/7/2017, GRB on 5/16/ 2016, and MYR also on 5/16/2016. o All of these activities would not be possible with out a dedicated team of well train ed , high achieving SMEs from all types o f facilities across the nation. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Artic le 48 Representative for TFDM. Mr. Baugh's update is below. • Due to the budget cuts of over $60M to the program from FY 17 - 19, Final Investment Decision (FID) has slipped from March to April 20, 2016. Contract award will be given after a successful FID. • It has been tasked to the TFDM team to find an additional $200K in additional benefits to the TFDM program due to Investme nt, Program and Analysis (IP&A) zeroing out the runway - balancing and departure queue management portion of the benefit analysis cas e from the Program Office (PO). If these additional benefits cannot be found the program is in jeopardy of moving forward. • Ad vanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) o The latest build, 5.3.0.3, is expec ted in late May or early June. Once this build completes its field testing in CLE and EWR, it will be rolled out to the additio nal facilities as coordinated. The train ing team was in SFO from 2/29 - 3/4 for the Operational Try out and had a successful week. AJI approved the Final Course Conduct, the next step in validating the training, d uring the first week of April. Once that is completed, the training will be validated and will be use d in the deployment of the system moving forward. o PHX PHX is in the process of turning off its paper strips and will run a test of that capability on April 28th. If successful, they will leave the paper printers off and rely solely on the AEFS s ystem. This would be a monumental benchmark for the system. They will then be brought up on the 5.3.0.3 build pending its release and a successful test of the system in EWR and CLE. o CLE CLE is still experiencing errors and freeze ups of the system. Some of the team m embers are traveling there the week of 3/21 to run diagnostics of the system in order to pinpoint the errors. o EWR