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Site activities may also be delayed a few weeks as new resources are brought onto the program to h elp with implementation and training. ENTERPRISE - INFOR MATION DISPLAY SYSTEM (E - IDS) Amanda Richardson (ZOA) is the Article 114 Representative for Enterprise - Informatio n Display System (E - IDS) work. Mrs. Richardson's report for the membership is below. Background : The Enterprise Information Display System (E - IDS) project aims to replace all existing IDSs in the NAS, providing the Agency with one enterprise solution across facility types. While some customization is, necessary and should be available, one system will reduce overall costs for upkeep and training, and resolve the upcoming end - of - life issues we have with our current IDSs in the field (IDS - 4, ERIDS, etc.). The project is working towards finalizing requirements by the summer of this year, with a contract scheduled to be awarded in 2019. My Program Office counterpart and I hope to have the completed and signed scoping document governing the future use of Cadre and SMEs by next month. This has been an ongoing collaborative effort to satisfy needs and concerns of both NATCA and the FAA. Initial En - Route focus groups were conducted this month with some of the En - Route Facility Technical Representatives and one TMC. Feedback from MITRE and the FAA's E - IDS team members was very positive. The discussio ns and expertise provided were valuable to the team's En Route efforts, further reinforcing our need to keep NATCA SMEs involved early and often in our technical projects. Human Factors bi - weekly telcons began this week with the initial kickoff and a subs equent Tech Ops based discussion. This work will be ongoing for at least the next 3 - 4 months. Scheduling for the Tower, TRACON, and En - Route demo work is currently in progress. Upcoming activities: Weekly / bi - weekly program status and engineering telcon s (ongoing) En - Route demo group work with MITRE (tentatively end of May) Tower / TRACON demo group work with MITRE (tentatively end of May) Human Factors workgroups NATCA, FAA, and PASS (ongoing) 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: The week of April 23 is still on track for testing of the new NIDS build. No key site has been coordinated for the national release schedule to this point. This software build is the last during the current contract with the vendor. A new maintenance contract is being fine - tuned and needs to be ready for a vendor in the July timeframe. Meantime the NIDS team is compiling updates/upgrades for a fall release software update. Who the vendor will be is still unknown. The NIDS (IDSR) p rogram is slowly catching up with the rapid installation of SWS in the NAS. Each facility (network) that has upgraded will be contacted to coordinate changes