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o Mr. Shedden, Tom Adcock (A48 Training), and the NVS Training Lead Chris Lloyd (ZDC) participated in the NVS Training Guidance Conference Completion meeting in Washington, D.C. This meeting closed action items from the March Training Guidance Conference and fu rther est ablished the training schedule. o NVS and ERAM began working together to ensure installation compatibility in the DSR console. There will be an NVS demo given to the ERAM CHI team the week of May 9th at the Tech Center in Atlantic City. In addition to the NVS Demonstration lab at the Tech Center, NVS now has an implementation lab dedicated to the hardware installation of the system. • Next Generation Air - Ground Communication (NEXCOM) continues deployment of new CM300/350 V2 radios to terminal facilitie s across the country. Deployment is going well. 10 new radios are in work or are going operational in May/June at various sites across the NAS. o Later this month, Houston Center (ZHU) will begin testing the new RCAG , replacing the ARINC ' s VHF Extended Range Network (VERN) in Cancun. The FAA successfully replaced the Key West VERN last summer. These RCAG/VERN radios provide long - range directional radio coverage in the Gulf of Mexico. • NAS Voice Recorder Program (NVRP) is the replacement for existing NAS voice r ecorders (DALR, DALR2, DVRS, DVR2). The NVRP Integrated Requirements Team met on March 24th to begin validating and shaping the requirements for the initial Program Requirements (iPR) document. • The Headset contract (Plantronics) is expiring in June of 2016 . The FAA program office is currently in the vendor selection process and expected to announce the selected vendor in the spring 2016 time frame. There will likely be changes to the availability of existing headset models regardless of the vendor selected, although the most popular models will remain unchanged. Mr. Shedden is working with Bill Howard (Program Office) to finalize the Heads et Guide and briefing document. • The Headset Splitter final design has been completed. The splitter , which is designed to allow three or four headsets to connected to existing voice switches should be produce d and deployed later this year. • Grand Rapids Tower/TRACON (GRR) is reporting multiple issues with their aging voice switch. The Voice Switching Team in Oklahoma City (AJ W - 173) is working closely with GRR to resolve their issues. There ' s also a radio coverage/spectrum issue being worked, as well as an issue with Tech Ops staffing and training. The controllers are back in the TRACON and identifying a list of issues to be wo rked by local tech ops. • Waterloo Tower/TRACON (ALO) is reporting issues with the phone system used operationally in the tower. One of the issues has been resolved (inaudible phone) while the second one remains in work. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM): Eric Owens (I90) is the Artic le 48 Representative for TBFM. Mr. Owens' report to the membership is below. • Over the past month the TBFM National Ops Team has been working with ZOA and ZLA to complete Cou pled Scheduling (CS) Key Site. The ZOA controllers were ru nning with times on the glass. Overall , the key site was successful.