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TER MINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the T FDM Article 48 Representative. He forwarded the information below for this week's update. • On April 30 during the midnight shift, EWR will be going IOC. o Mr. Baugh participated in a meetin g with EWR ATM Russ Halleran, OM Bob Gibney, their AEFS lead Louis Cagianno, AEFS contract lead Joe Longo, and Surface Manager Bob Varcadipane to discuss their plans for the next few days as well as the next few weeks after going IOC. • Mr. Baugh was very im pressed with all of the work they have done over the last week to get this plan finished and implemented. Although the FacRep Ray Adams wasn ' t on the phone, the ATM spoke very highly of him and their combined ability to maintain the facilities focus on th e task at hand. o They have been running shadow ops in their facility for a little over three weeks now, meaning extra people in the cab mirroring what the local/ground cont rollers are doing with strips. This process was initially being handled by the EWR te am and some of our team who have been up there as support. o Gradually, over that time, additional BUE s have been brought u p to take over the shadow ops. Over the last two days however, live ops have been underway a few rotations at a time with those who are the mos t comfortable with the system. During those runs, shadow ops with their paper strips were be ing done in case of a failure. o There have been no failures and everyth ing has been running smoothly. It is the facilit y ' s plan to continue these min i - trials with as many people as possible until t hey go IOC later this weekend. To help accomplish this, the ATM has started calling in OT to backfill for any sick hits to ensure the facility is in full strength. In addition to the OT, we have had someone up there as support this week and he will r emain there thro ugh next week. o Mr. Baugh will be at EWR Monday through Wednesday and we will be bringing someone else in on Tuesday. • The main hang - up right now is EWR's requested screen covers so that if they h ave a failure and have to revert to paper, they can have a place to put those strips since the counters they normally us e will now have AEFS monitors. They are going to get the second attempt of these covers later this week so that is looking promising. • F or AEFS in general, the team is continuing to work with SFO to get as many of their requests for adaptation in the next build, due out June 10, and we thin k we have everything captured. o PHX will be brought up to the most recent build by June 20. o CLE ha d a major failure on Tuesday morning, three of the positions (Supervisor, TM, and Ground) all froze and the thin clients had to be reset. Because of this, they had to revert to using paper for a short time. Tracking was turned off on their thin clients becau se they hadn ' t had freezes since we gave the m the emergency build. They have since turned on the tracking in order to try and capture what is happening with their freeze - ups and hope to have a solution by next week. They have unofficially closed the wis h list for the next build so that we can maintain our schedule, but if they can easily find a fix for the CLE issues, the work on that list will continue.