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TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAG ER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the T FDM Article 48 Representative. His TFDM upda te for the membership is below. • TFDM' s FID has slipped to June 15th to allow IP&A more time to finalize their findings from the facility meetings with DEN, DTW, MIA, MSP, and PHX regarding the Runwa y Balancing benefit from TFDM. The program presented the Draft FID briefing at the PMO PMR on 4/28, requesting a total program baseline without segmentation. The briefing was well received with only minor changes suggested. • It has b een proposed by the JRC to give TFDM some of the money that ha s been cut over the last year. Approximately $40M in FY18 and $60M in FY19. If these increases in funding are approved, it would move the timeline of IOC back to the left from a 2024 - 25 start da te to a 2020 - 21 time frame. • Advanced Electronic Flight Strips (AEFS) o The latest build, 5.3.0.3, is expected to be ready by July once testing at the tech center and in the field have been completed. When it, and the facilities, are ready, all facilities wil l be brought up to that build. o A request has been made for additional national cadres to assist in the upcoming training of SFO, LAS, and CLT. A few volunteers have come forward and we are in the process of finalizing the list and working the training sche dule. • PHX o PHX will upgrade their build to 5.3.0.2 in mid June to early July. o PHX went completely paperless on April 18th, however, they have since turned the printers back on as a back - up due to a lack of full route capability in AEFS. If a FR is requested prior to a flight ' s P - time, FDIO wil l print the FR with no beacon. In short, AEFS gets the request, sends it to ERAM and when ERAM sends it back, AEFS throws it away because the flight hasn 't populated yet. This issue is being resolved in the next build, 5.3.0.3. • CLE o CLE has continued to see freezes on the supervisor and TM screens even with the latest engineering build. It is believed to be caused by the changing of configurations from the mid settings to the day settings. o CLE had a system failure on Tues day morning, 4/26, and had to revert to paper strips for a brief period while they did a hard reset of all of the positions. This issue is still being researched but we have yet to find a trigger event. o Joel Forrest, a contractor for the program, spent a w eekend in CLE on 5/7 and 5/8 in an attempt to witness the issues and pull the logs from the thin clients at the positions and the servers. • EWR o EWR began shadow ops around mid April in preparation for I OC in late April or early May. Although supplemental tr aining and familiarization fell short due to a number of issues, the faci lity achieved IOC on April 30. Congratulations and thank you to the local team, Loui Caggiano, Chris Quincannon, Matt Yau, and Phil Wagner, for their nearly 10 months of work leading up to this monumental undertaking and for their continued support.