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LAS Nothing new SFO Nothing new EWR Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) We met with ZBW on Tuesday, Dec. 19 and had an SVT kickoff event with members of their NATCA TMU and management. We left the required training for their personnel to take sometime prior to the planned March 1st Initial Operating Capability (IOC). ZBW still has to get us the IP addresses to the hardware they would like to have SVT displayed. Once we get that information, it takes Harris 30-60 days to onramp their adaptations. SDF is requesting a 42 display to place in their operating area so that the controllers can have more of a real-time view of the airport surface area. The Program Office has not historically provided sites with equipment but a request has been made with the PO and from the site to their regions IT department. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM. His report to the membership is below. Members of the TBFM National Ops Team travelled to Dallas the week of 12/4 for an all hands team meeting. The Ops team did a full review of the year's activities on TBFM/TSAS and began planning for activity support for next year. Additionally, members of the Ops team gave an overview of TBFM and TSAS to representatives of Southwest Airlines at their operations center. The week of 12/11 most of the planned travel for TBFM and TSAS was cancelled due to the late passage of the budget continuing resolution. There was a 4.8 Ops Eval and a TSAS Lab first look both scheduled at the FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City that had to be rescheduled. Friday of that week the TBFM/TSAS management Co-Lead, Perry Casselle, and I attended a full day Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) scenario demonstration from MITRE. The purpose of having us at the meeting was to review TBO scenarios that MITRE put together and to ensure that the TBFM/TSAS assumptions were correct. We also had discussions with a number of other subject specialists (from the Command Center, Headquarters, etc.) about how various systems might be properly integrated in line with the TBO goals. The week of 12/18 Ops team members travelled to ZAU to conduct the first of two- planned TBFM adaptation visits in lead up to their use of the en route Departure Capability (EDC) portion of TBFM. EDC is a function of TBFM that is widely used across the NAS to generate release times for aircraft departures to meet mile-Iin-trail with Overhead traffic and other area departures. Ops team members, along with FAST adaptation support personnel, worked with ZAU NATCA and Management TMU representatives on their EDC adaptation with the goal of later training to TMU personnel and eventually usage of the tool. Adam Nagao, ZAU NATCA TMC, has been involved with the TBFM Ops Team for a number of years helping develop the TBFM Training

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