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Inter - Facility Data Interface (FIDI) parts 1 and 2, Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSAS), the eventual final content of Terminal Work Package 1. Most of those things are essential projects that have to get done and any schedule change carries ripple effect impact on other programs or systems. We will be facing some very hard cho ices in the next three to five years. o Merge Software . The most significant activity with TAMR software is the rele ase of Revision 4 (R4) , which is the first step of the software " merge " that brings all the software modifications made for the large TRACON transitions together with the STARS ELITE and legacy STARS software baselines. This software will be deployed to fi rst five key site facilities this month. R5 is the last step of the software merge, which brings together all the late breaking changes and modifications and will roll out this fall. TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 Update (In the future this will be the STA RS G1 Te ch Refresh and ARTS IIE Replacement update) submitted by Scott Robillard - K90 : o Deployment activity of all types is occurring on a daily basis across the NAS. At the start of program, there were 91 ARTS IIE facilities. 8 of those facilities housed 2 ARTS IIE s, which brought the total number of ARTS IIEs in the NAS to 95. In the short 2 years and 2 months of deployment , we have deployed G4 Elite to 23 ARTS IIE sites. This is just the start. Before the end of July 2016, 6 more sites will join those 23 : FSD, FSM , PBI, COS, TLH and FAI. o West Palm Beach (PBI) is a significant achievement for NATCA. At the inception of the TAMR Phase 3 program, PBI was not on the TAMR waterfall and was scheduled for realignment to MIA. Through the work of many NATCA activists, PBI will become a STARS G4 ELITE site on June 22, 2016. o Tech refresh of G1/G2 to STARS G4 systems is an endeavor that is running in parallel to ARTS IIE replacement. To accommodate the enormous amount of work, the NATCA TAMR team has enlisted the services of Jill Carr (TPA), Teah Lord (F11) , and Chris Hilbert (PHL) to join the team of core SMEs that bring facilities from the very first survey of the site to cutover. o Currently, there is ongoing activity at 13 legacy G1 STARS facilities. R90, Y90, SBA, TUL, ICT , IND, RDU, D21, P50, LAS, DAB, and CVG all are at different points in transition from G1/2 to G4 STARS. o Common Terminal Digitizer If there is one Achilles Heel for the STARS waterfall, it is all sites with an ASR8 that have not previously been digitized with a TDX - 2000. Over the past 3 years , NATCA has been deeply involved in the development of the Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD). Of the 41 ASR8 s in the NAS, 23 have no digitization as of today