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subsidiary system, but agreed to continue to operate on STARS until revised software can be delivered in May. o Chicago TRACON (C90) completed an extremely smooth STARS transition and declared Continuous Operations on April 12, about 80 hours into their second test event. Thanks to a really strong team, STARS preparation and performance was almost flawless. Unfortun ately , ARMT, a peripheral system which C90 uses to generate flight progress strips, was plagued with performance issues that threatened continued STARS operation throughout. This is the same system that created strip issues at PCT and Atlanta TRACON (A80). The ARMT team responded quickly with code revisions that dramatically improved the situation. A fortunate side effect is that this improved ARMT software has already been installed at PCT, and dramatically improved their strip performance. The software is expected to be installed at A80 with similar results in the very near future. This is a significant schedule advancement over the STARS software change that was expected to improve strip performance at A80 and PCT in mid - May. o There were two significant fa ilures in the last month. S06.R4.D3, which is the first software that merges all the capabilities across all STARS platforms, failed to achieve an " operationally suitable " designation after 4 weeks of testing. The software failed to ensure accurate data ta g acquisition on ESL in the G1/G2 Legacy STARS platform. The software will be re - tested April 26 - 28. The second failure was S06.R3C.D6 software , which included tracking performance improvements developed at Southern California TRACON and enhancements to AR MT. These enhancements are expected to provide significant improvement at PCT. The revised software, S06.R3C.D7, will be tested May 3 - 5. • TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 Update submitted by Scott Robillard - K90 o Greetings from the ARTS IIE Deployment team. Over the pa st month what has seemed to be a busy period in the replacement of the ARTS IIE with STARS G4 ELITE has only gotten busier. Three sites completed their STARS tra nsitions in the month of March. o ACY achieved IOC March 12, 2016. CHA achieved IOC on March 14, 2016. CHA was the 4th of 30 ASR8 site s that also required the deployment of the TDX - 2000 to digitize the radar. GPT achieved IOC on March 18, 2016. o IOCs in the ARTS IIE deployment is the culmination of approximately 18 months of work. Those types of activi ties are occurring throughout the NAS. Examples of those high level activities are the BFL Initial Site Survey (ISS), ABI STAMP review. ABI is a Part 1 S804 site. ABI will not be realigning and will be outfitted as a STARS G4 ELITE TRA - CAB. GSP Initial Si te Survey (ISS), TLH Contractor Acceptance Inspection (CAI). CAI is where the FAA buys the installed, but not operational, system from the vendor. GFT, GGG and AVL ASR8 Prep Work to bring the radar up to s tandards prior to digitization. o MSN Joint Site Surv ey (JSS), CRW Site Implementation Review (SIR). The SIR is the last look at the deployment plans prior to equipment delivery. FSM began TLSE shakedown 1. Shakedown 1 concludes with Air Traffic t raining.