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A team was also at ZKC helping with a ne w adaptation for ZDV arrivals. In addition, a group was at SFO to conduct an IDAC Site Survey at SFO Tower. IDAC will be used at SFO to condit ion the departures for LAX and SEA. The week of July 31st, a team went to ZNY to shadow the newly developed En ro ute Departure Capability (EDC). The EDC system appeared to be very stable and should be ready when IDAC is installed at EWR, JFK, LGA, PHL, TE B , and HPN. Upcoming Activities for the TBFM Ops Team: 8/7 RIC/ZDC IDAC Training and Implementation 8/14 D.C. TSAS Meeting and Safety Panel ZNY EDC Floor Walkers ZME Shadow in the Support String 8/21 ZNY EDC Floor Walkers ZTL Assist with ZSE visi t to ZTL ZKC TBFM Training Support 8/28 OKC TSAS Training Meeting ZNY EDC Floor Walkers D21 DTW MetroPlex Customer Forum TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TFMS) Brian Campos (DCC) represents the NATCA membership as their Article 114 Representative to the TFMS project. His report is below. Staffing at the Command Center would not allow me to attend the TFMS meetings for the TFM Deployment Team meeting on Jun e 6th and 7th in Atlantic City. Chris Jeffers, ZOB/ZME was able to be released from ZOB t o atte nd and act on my behalf. I was able to attend the first day meeting in the afternoon via telcon for 90 minutes to go over some of the significant topics. ABRR/PDRR is still in the off mode after the identified problems discovered in the early May's turn on attempt. Discussion between ERAM and TFMS are on going in finding solutions to problems. Some fixes are scheduled in ERAM EAD604 Field Fix and EAD700. Mark Dipalmo has been doing a nice job working through the bugs with ERAM/TFMS for ABRR/PDRR to get fully deployed. Issue affecting TFMS, is no decisi on on contract award for TFMS. This will affect decisions in getting fixes resolved in any supporting role wit h other systems such as ERAM. A small fix is still tentatively scheduled for August to add ress some critical and security items only, which means engineering requests ER will take a back seat. The team reviewed the current state for ABRR/PDRR, PDRR/ABRR TMC Reference card develop ment and AIMS ticket reviews. TFMS questioner went to Nation al to get approval to be sent to the field for comment which Trish gave her blessing. The TFMS tools questionnaire will help determine the usefulness of the current tools and to help rate their importance in the criticality of use. Surface Viewer requir ements was just brought into the TFMS DT workgroup during the June meeting which I was unable to attend howev er, Chris Jeffers was able to. It was the initial introduction to the document. We took this information as self - study to be