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The week of February 21, I attended collaboration training with my management counterp art at DCA. We also had team s at RDU and ZDC to complete training and implementation of Integrated Depar ture Arrival Capability (IDAC). The final week of February, we were at ZDV to suppor t the GIM - s efforts at Denver. Denver is requesting to establish a coupled scheduling (CS) arra ngement with ZLC, which wil l be further discussed in May. I was in Washington , D . C . during this week to attend TBFM, TSAS , and GIM - s meetings. The first full week of March, March 6 - 10, I was at a meeting with a group from the Ops Team to work with ZSE, S4 6 , and SEA for the same GIM - s efforts we are conducting at ZAB and ZDV. We made a lot of progress during this meeting and have a follow - up meeting the first week of May. To further assist with conditioning the flow for TSAS, we will be i nstalling IDAC at Z SE and SEA. We will also install IDAC at ZDV, DIA, ZAB , and PHX this fiscal year. The week of March 13th, a team was deployed to ZMP to assist with sh adowing a new TBFM adaptation. We also had a TSAS meeting at ZMA to work on training development and a us e case to determine if a support string similar to the TBFM En Route s upport string would be needed. It appears that we will need a support string to allow the terminal facilities to checkout new adaptations prior to installation in the Ops String. The we ek of March 20th, I attended Communicating for Safety and assis ted with a TSAS and IDAC demo. We also had two teams attend an ATD - 4 activity at MITRE. This week, March 27 - 30, we will be in New York. On Tuesday, we will be at ZNY to assist with development of their EDC (En Route Dep arture Capability) adaptation. EDC is needed prio r to the installation of IDAC. On Wednesday, I will be at th e Regional Office to provide an IDAC briefing for the New York facilities since DSP is not currently being sustained. ID AC is the initial part of TFDM so if the New York towers are good with using IDAC, it will get them a head start on TFDM when that is fielded. IDAC allows the towers to get an IFR release without calling the center. On Thursday, we will be at N90 to assist with arrival metering in the New York area. Issues that we are tracking: ZTL had two TBFM c rashes over the last two weeks. It appears that the issue has to do with one of the TBFM Virtual Machines (VM). However, the engineers are still trying to determi ne the actual cause. In addition, a patch will be installed at ZTL the first week of May to address additional issues identified by ZTL. ZDV, ZHU , and ZDC have advised me that they are observing some DCT jumps. If you are at one of these facilities , pleas e ensure a site report is filed. In addition, if you are at an en route facility other than one of the three listed and you have witnessed DCT jumps, please file a site report. Future Scheduled Activities: 4/3 - 7, 2017 : ZMA Cuba Feed 4/10 - 14, 2017 : 4.7 TB FM/TSAS Ops Eval and ERAM GIM - s b riefing in Atlantic City 4/17 - 21, 2017 : TSAS Demo in Atlantic City