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D . C . for three days of meetings with TAMR for a programmatic review of the previous year, planning for the remainder of the waterfall, planning for software deployment, conducting lessons learned, me ssaging, and strategic planni ng. To recap, the Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) is the largest threat to the FAA completing its mission of transitioning to one automation platform. Without the CTD the FAA will not meet its requirement to be NextGen complia nt by 2020. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM): Eric Owens (I90) is the Arti cle 48 Representative for TBFM. His report to the membership is below: The month of September , the TBFM National Op s Team had numerous activities. The week of August 29th, I atten ded a Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSAS) meeting in D . C . to continue work o n requirements for the system. We are having monthly TSAS meetings in an attempt to hit the targeted date of April 2019. September 6 - 16, 2016, the TBFM Ops Team travel ed to ZBW , BOS, MHT, PVD, BDL , and ALB to conduct Integrated Departure and Arriv al Capability (IDAC) training. The training was successful and the facilities were using IDAC prior to us leaving the area. In addition to the IDAC activity, we also had an early dep art ure - scheduling event at ZMP. I sent Scott Hansen (TBFM NATCA SME) to support this event. The week of September 19, 2016, we had a 4.5 key site activity at ZAB. The 4.5 key site wen t well and the national delivery shoul d happen in six to eight weeks. We al so had a TSAS meeting in Seatt le. This meeti ng was conducted at the TRACON. The TSAS Ops Team presented information regarding TSAS to ZSE and S46. We also made a commitment to work with the Seattle facilities to ensure TBFM is read y for the TSAS install in 2019. The week of September 26, 2016, The TBFM Ops Team traveled to ZOB, CLE, DTW , and PIT to install IDAC. Our work is continuing there this week a t ZOB, DTW, CLE, BUF, and ROC. If everything goes well, we will have completed our fourth install and impl ementation of IDAC this ye ar. Our next IDAC install will be at ZDC, IAD, DCA, BWI, RDU , and RIC beg inning the week of October 31. Upcoming activities: • October 11 - 14: TBFM Ops Team Meeting in D . C. • October 17 - 21: 4.6 Discovery Site at ZDV/ ZAB and D01/ZDV TS AS Briefing • Oct ober 19 - 21: 3T Meeting at MITRE • October 24 - 28: ZID/ZTL T2T • October 31 - November 10: ZDC/IAD/DCA/BWI/RDU/RIC IDAC Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the T FDM Article 48 Representative. His upda te for the membership is below. First, I would like to welcome two new members to the NATCA TFDM team : Kelly Eger from BO S and Louis Caggiano from EWR. Both will bring additional controller input and experi ence for the building of TFDM. Congratulations to the both of you and than k you for stepping up!