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LAS Nothing new SFO Nothing new EWR Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) Nothing new TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT/TERMINAL SEQUENCING AND SPACING (TBFM/TSAS) Matt Gammon (ZID) is the Article 114 Representative for TBFM/TSAS. His report to the membership is below. TBFM The week of Jan 15 Ops Team members were at ZLA testing the first IDAC TRACON adaptation with representatives from ZLA and SCT. The adaptation that was delivered was tested in the Support Lab at ZLA and seemed to be working as expected. There were a number of discussions about training, equipment, and other items that need to be addressed for rollout into operational use. A training/implementation week was set for February and Ops Team representatives will be at ZLA and SCT for this activity. The same week MITRE held TBO Scenario Walk through scenarios in which Ops Team members participated. The week of Jan. 22, Ops Team members returned to ZAU to work on Adaptation for En route Departure Capability (EDC). EDC utilizes TBFM architecture to allow for efficient departure releases to meet Miles-in-Trail restrictions. There are two weeks scheduled later where the Ops team will help facilitate training and implementation of the EDC tool at ZAU in February and March. TBFM Ops team members travelled to the Tech Center in Atlantic City the week of Jan 29th to perform an Ops Evaluation of the upcoming 4.8 TBFM system. The arrival and EDC portion of TBFM was validated with one issue that was previously identified that will be fixed before rollout to the first Key site. There were issues found though with the IDAC system that necessitated some more attention. The issues were identified as necessary to be fixed prior to the IDAC Key site and due to this the second Key site schedule had to be moved to a later date. This second Key site to validate the IDAC portion of the release has been rescheduled and will be conducted in mid-March. After spending two days at the Tech Center the Ops team travelled to PHL to work on arrival metering as part of the Northeast Corridor (NEC). This was just the first visit to gather information on their current operation and lay the schedule groundwork for metering improvements in the future. Overall it was a very good meeting and a proposed schedule of future work was identified and reported to the NEC Group. The week of Feb. 5 the Team travelled to SCT and ZLA to train on SCT Traffic Management personnel on IDAC and test the Operational use of the system. This is the

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