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involving the end - users. Our members have an excellent opportunity to provide input on their current system (processes, pros, and cons) and have a say in what is necessary in the future E - IDS. NATCA National has approved of the questionnaire and r ecommends our membership participation. Please contact your FacRep for the appropriate link and password. Thank you for your participation! I met with my FAA counterpart, Doug Balint, along with NATCA National and FAA PMO personnel in D . C . this week. We d iscussed the status of the budget process, a general E - IDS timeline of events, and further defined our use of NATCA SMEs moving forward. Upcoming activities: Initial En Route Questionnaire (in process) Initial Oceanic Questionnaire (out for review) FLIGH T DATA INPUT OUTPUT ( FDIO) Corey Soignet (LFT) is the FDIO Article 114 Representative. Also included in Mr. Soignet's duties is Article 114 representation for the Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System (EFSTS). Mr. Soignet forwarded the information below for the membershi p: FDIO The first arti cle testing is still on going. The FDIO t eam is dealing with nume rous quality assurance issues. To date all issues are being corrected by BOCA and then the FDIO t eam re - tests the corrected printer. The printer is als o in its final stages of its FCC Class B certification and should be certified by end of September. The key site install was slipped back to January 2018. The plan is to have five key sites consisting of a Tower and TRACON and , due to their unique printer demands , we are also using Honolulu, Alaska , and Puerto Rico. EFSTS There is nothing to update at this time. FIDI There is nothing to update at this time. INTEGRATED DISPL AY SYSTEM REPLACEMENT (IDS - R) Richie Smith (N90) leads NATCA's efforts on the IDS - R project as t he Article 114 Representative. Below is Mr. Smith's report. A new NIDS software build (3.6.3, aka V3.6.17255.0822) completed testing on September 14 at the Tech Center in Atlantic City. The original plan was to key site this software at two networks (I90 and CMH) during the week of September 18. Due to the hurricane that impacted the Houston area the I90 installation has been postponed. Key site testing will take place at CMH and national distribution is tentatively scheduled for 30 days lat er. This is a longer gap than previously used because of the particular issues that this new software was built to fix. Some logging issues can only be proven over a period of time. I90 will be attended to as soon as they, and the city of Houston, can comf ortably accommodate the personnel needed to upgrade the software. The next proposed version of software (V3.6.4) and next operating system are being bundled for cost proposal and have a tentative date of March 2018.