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with some adjustments to ADS - B compliance and radars, SCT's radar presentati on will improve. For legacy STARS users such as MIA, PHL, and S46 , a new TAMR sof tware drop is being key sited. This is called the merge build where two different sof tware lines converge into one. Training will follow in the next month or so and TAMR train ing personnel will assist with the immense change to ensure controllers understand and glean added benefits within STARs automation. December of 2019 is the scheduled date of last deployment of STARS to the NAS. With this comes the question "What happens n ext?" Answers: Support in realizing what the system is capa ble of doing at each facility. We are pushing to provide in - depth knowledge to facilities both large and small on capabi lities to make OUR JOB EASIER. Incorporate new tools such as Terminal Spacing and Sequencing (TSAS) into the STA Rs system and into facilities. Terminal Automation after the deployment phase is over will have plenty of work left to do. The Big 11 What does the phrase "The Big 11" mean? ARTs IIIe facilities that have transitioned to STARS . Big news this week for SCT was their declaration of Operat ional Readiness Decision (ORD). This means SCT will decommission the ARTs IIIe and remove it from the building, leaving only STARs. SCT joins D10, D01, NCT, A80, M98, SDF, and T75 in declar i ng ORD. On ly N90, PCT, and C90 are left. This is a huge accomplishment for the TAMR program and NATCA's involvement is key to ensuring NextGen technologies move forward. Long Term OSF Training Mr. Rose received news on June 15 from Troy Barr (NATCA OSF Re p) that the year - long battle with the agency had been won reference long - term training. In the past , the automation specialist that adapt s our software and make s the system purr never received formal training. Troy Barr and Michael Tate (Denver OSF) both a p proached NATCA for help. The agency agreed that mistakes were made in the past and , after a meeting at the Raytheon facility in Los Angeles , made the right cho ice and coughed up some money. Michael Tate, Candy Barr, and Keith Duffy (All NATCA OSF Speciali st) attended the three - day meeting and composed the training document to be used. When new systems come online , such as TSAS , the OSF training will be updated prior to adapting in an operational environment. NATCA TAMR Software & Engineering Report Doug Peterson (D10) Significant events in software and systems engineering for STARS and the TAMR p rogram over the last month include MSAW/CA activity, R4 software training, strategic software build pl anning, and software key sites. Since installing STARS at Ch icago (C90) and New York (N90) , the number and frequency of Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW) and Conflict Alert (CA) alarms has become a high priority issue. C90 reports a significant increase in invalid alarms. Preliminary investigation suggests that the current C90 STARS adaptation may be producing 50% + more total alarms than CARTS. Adaptation proposals ar e being considered at the site. A small percentage of false alarms will be corrected by t he "MANCON" bug fix in early 2017. N90 had an event with ai rcraft in close proximity that would have generated an alarm in CARTS, but did not in STARS. NATCA supported a change in CA software