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support AT training and adaptation development for Ter minal Spacing and Sequencing (TSAS) sites. - Attended TSAS telcons weekly to address how the new capability will be deployed to terminal approach controls and Operational Support Facilities. A draft MOA is in the process and out for review from stakeholder s for the TBFM in a Box simulator to support the initial connection to STARS at the OSFs. - Attended the Program Trouble Report Work Group (PTRWG) telcon – Reviewed and ranked current PTR's - Attended the System Technical Reports Working Group (STRWG) tel con to review thin specs for requested changes to STARS software. - Attended the TAMR Look Ahead, TAMR TAGUP, TAMR SBS and additional TSAS (2 or 3 a week) AWG/ TSLE/Integration Test telcons. - Attended OSF specialists' weekly OSF technical telcon . - STARS Strategic Planning Meeting (SSP): Coordinate and receive feedback on integrated hardware and software planning among TAMR stakeholders, identify risks to the hardware and software plan and propose risk mitigation solutions with the stakeholder's input. - Attended the STARS Software Planning Board (SPB) telcon for the S6.00R4C, S6.00R7, S6.00R7A and S6.00R9 software release contents. - Attended the Rules workgroup telcon. This is the rework of the rules process and streamlining the RTR process for new and u pdated site rules for sites. TERM INAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Articl e 114 Representative for TFDM. Mr. Baugh's update is below. The first two of many Safety Risk Management (SRM) Panels were held the last week of September and the first week of October. These meetings will help identify any risks TFDM may bring to the NAS early enough for the team to mitigate them in a timely fashion. The week of 10/11 Ray Adams joined the rest of the TFDM t raining team in Gaithersburg, Md. for a three - day review of the TFDM Course Design Guides (CDG) for Air Traff ic Cadres, ATC, & FLM/CIC/TMC. We made a lot of progress in the development of training and completed all three documents. Currently, TFDM training is going to take each ATC app roximately five days of combined web based training and instructor led tra ining. Once the completed build 1 system is in the tech center in February we hop e to be able to reduce that to four days. Build 2 development has begun and once it has reached a cer tain level of maturity, we will begin the Advanced TMC training CDG. NATC A SME from four facilit ies traveled to Gaithersburg, Md. the week of 10/23 - 27 to participate in the second of three Early User Involvement Event (EUIE). This three day hands - on demon stration of the system in it's current state will help ensure that we, as a team, are on the right track and are catering as many field requirements as possible prior to getting to our first Key Site, PHX in 2019. Concern has been brought up within the T FDM ops team over the last couple of weeks that we may miss our Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) Initial Operating Capability (IOC) date of January 2020 for PHX. As it stands, we are still in the process of developing build 1 and shou ld finish in late Ja nuary 2018. The tech center will get the system sometime in March or April with official Discrepancy Testing (DT) to start in