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September 2016 and Denver TRACON in October 2016 to begin di scussions with the facilities. In addition to TSAS, we also had Ops Team member a t MITRE to assist with the ZDV Metroplex project. We did not travel anyone from the TBFM National Ops team the week of July 6th. However, this week we are supporting a GIM - s install at ZKC, we are evaluating Path Stretch at MITRE, and we have a TSAS meetin g in D . C. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the TFDM Article 48 Representative. His upda te for the membership is below: Some big s teps for TFDM this past month. First, on Wednesday, 6/15, the Joint Resources Council (JRC) approved the approximately $795M Final Inves tment Decision (FID) for TFDM. One action item was taken from the meeting and that was to return to the JRC in late 2017 with a status on Build 1 development and preparations for Build 2. The second step came on Wednesday , 6/29, when the team was notified of a contract award. Lockheed Martin won the contract, with SAAB Sens is as its major subcontractor. The next step is to meet with the contractors and discuss timelines, testing, demos, etc. T his meeting is scheduled for 7 /19 - 20. ADVANCED ELECTRONIC FLIGHT STRIPS (AEFS) Terminal Second Level Engineering (TSLE) continues to work on both an emergency build to fix latency issues as well as backend server problems, and a major overhaul of the most recent 5.3.0.3 build, now du e out sometime in January. That build, if it passes TSLE ' s testing, will go to Operational Testing & Evaluation (OT&E), which AJV - 7 (Requirements) will use as a system suitability call. The TFDM team has been working over the last several weeks to build a robust testing scrip t to simulate an actual tower. With the acquisition of ERAM in a box, we believe the test will afford us at least 90 percent of a live traffic scen ario. This testing will cover two wee ks and will require as many as eight SMEs to travel to the Tech Center to assist with each day of testing. A request for those SME s should be sent out within the next few months. We also received word from AJI - 232 (Training) that validation activities have been completed for AEFS ATC training; meaning AEFS now has an official training guide. PHX : Installation of the training system in the TSS lab was done the week of 6/20. The surplus of old equipment was removed from the towers simulator room and shipped back to the tech center. CLE : Testing of the emergen cy release build was scheduled for the week of 6/20 but testing was canceled because it still failed the TSLE testing. Further testing is planned for the middle of August, assuming it passes the TSLE testing. EWR : Nothing new . SFO : Installation of the serv ers and running of the cables in the new tower will take place the week of August 8th. The newest build still won't be ready until sometime in January but installing now means all we have to do later is simply plug in the monitors. LAS : Local adaptation wo rk began and a training system was installed in the TSS lab the week of 6/13. With these two steps completed, the next step is to run cables and ins tall servers in the new tower. There will be no monitors installed upstairs in the new tower until the syste m can be proven to be safe and effective in an operational environment. CLT: A site survey was conducted on June 16 in order for TSLE and the facility tech ops to develop a plan for eventual equipment installation.