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TFMS Release 13 Patch 4 (R13P4) with critical that corrects a performance issue that will mislead a TMC from determining if a flight is conformant to a required route. Another key fix, will allow the Route Amendment Dialog (RAD) PDRR/ABRR to be turned off and on per facility and position. This in itself will support live site testing in November and December prior to training and deployment in January 2017. There are over 50 more fixes in R13P4. The additional R13P4 regression and patch testing Oct 12- 14 went well with remaining concerns. Legacy performance issue was discovered in how the turn angle is being used for conformance. Is it using the 8-minute into the future evaluation for conformance or the physical aircraft with the actual route? It is believed it may be with the 8-minute projection point. This may have to change in a future releases but it is not expected to hold up RAD/ABRR/PDRR release. TFMS Release 13 Patch 5 (R13P5) resolves a key critical to do the testing. The select "ALL" ' check box in Create Route Amendment field selects all flights regardless of red highlighting. TMC could select information without the intent of selecting items in the TMCs field of view, thus, creating an undesirable result. The early look for patch 5 on Oct 14th shows good promise for deployment of R13P5 on Dec 3rd. This problem was originally slated for R13P6 but was moved up. TFMS release 13 Patch 6 (R13P6) will address fixes with one HIGH that deals with, " There is no indication to the TMC that a conformance measure was dropped once a Required national reroute was canceled with an exact route match on a similar local RAD route". In a tactical means, the route may still be necessary based on the life cycle of the event at a local level. Some indication is necessary to the TMC to inform them to review the previously addressed route at a local level. This resolve is expected on Jan 7th. Testing events: TFMS/ERAM, Route Amendment Dialog (RAD) PDRR/ABRR site testing was moved up from November 11th-12 to 7th-8th. The 7th is expected to be a one-facility test using either ZLC or ZMP based upon which facility back up channel can handle things better. Next night will be multi-center between ZLC/ZDV/ZMP. The goal is identify the impacts on how the first time TFMS will integrate with ERAM in sharing data. It is expected things will run well. Test plans are near being finalized for these dates. Training updates RAD/ABRR/PDRR training is still scheduled for 40 people of interests for January. One TMC and one STMC from each enroute facility are expected to take the training. This will result as a trained SME with the use of RAD/ABRR/PDRR. It does seem difficult with some facilities being able to release people due to staffing issues in units. The TFMS DT is actively working on the course content. Three TMCs from the field combined with the TFMS DT will review and train the 3 TMCs in November. This will prepare the full team to deliver training to the 40 in January. Additional classes may be given in February once the TMU operational SMEs complete the training. October 20-21: TFMS-TBFM-TFDM (3T) Operational Transition Evaluation exercise Day 1 Through Lab interactions reviewed operations and possible procedures related to rerouting in the ARTCC, TRACON, and ATCT. Notes: Mitre demonstrated some scenarios to fill holes in procedural concepts for NexGen tool design which bridge across TFMS/TBFM/TFDM for possible deployment in around 2020-22. They demonstrated much of the Integrated Departure Route Planning (IDRP), which is a tool concept they have been working on for a while, and the

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