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the week of August 14th. We will schedule two deliveries a day for six day s in an effort to allow everyone an opportunity to participate. The facility leadership has been very supportive and went a long way to help us get participants for the surveys. Investigation training - T raining was conducted in the ce ntral service area in Dallas for t he RAP panel. There will be additional training for the other two service areas in the next few months. We also hope to provide this training to the ERT in AJI fairly soon. Health & Wellness There hasn't been much going on here other than the work that co ntinues on Academy materials for AT Basics as well as the survival guide. The stress materials for the next round of recurrent training have been delivered to the recurrent training team. Fatigue ZOA - N ext week Dr. Wesensten and I will visit ZOA and dist ribute the actigraphs for their employees to wear for the next month or so. INTEGRATED DIS PLAY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R) Richie Smith (N90) leads NATCA's efforts on the IDS - R project as the Article 114 Representative. Below is Mr. Smith's report. On Fr iday , July 28 , the IDSR/NIDS waterfall officially completed with I90 declaring ORD. The two last networks to declare ORD (I90 and CMH) are still owed fixes to further stabilize their systems. Thanks to NATCA PMO representative Jeff Woods involvement the pr ogram office has agreed to maintain full time on site support at both facilities until a new software build is installed and for a mi nimum of three weeks afterward. There are currently plans for three successive software builds to fix known issues in the software. The anticipated test date for the next (first) build is during the week of September 11 , with the following week being discussed as a key site date. NAS VOICE SWITCH (NVS) Jon Shedden (ZFW) represents t he NATCA membership as their Article 114 Rep resentative to the NVS project. His report is below. NAS Voice System (NVS) Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Dry Run ended June 23rd. The system still has stability problems so Harris will continue working on de fect resolution prior to starting formal FAT. Formal FAT was scheduled to start July 18th, but has been officially delayed. The FAA is working with Harris to address the impacts to the s chedule because of this delay. Mr. Shedden was in Seattle the week of June 26th at the Seattle ARTCC developing Operational Test (OT) scenarios. The OT scenarios will be based on Seattle airspace. Mr. Shedden was in back in Seattle the week of July 17th at the Seattle TRACON for their site survey. The site survey goes over all their position hardware as well as the layout and functions on the position maps. Mr. Shedden will be in Anchorage the week of July 24th meeting with Alaska flight service personal to finalize their NVS requirements. Harris Human Factors personnel wi ll