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towards finalizing requirements by the summer of this year, with a contract scheduled to be awarded in 2019. Progress continues to be made to secure time for me as the Art 114 Rep and to finalize the Cadre / SME scoping agreement. NATCA National and FAA's AJT are currently working the scoping agreement. The E - IDS project was presented to the FAA's JRC (Joint Resources Council) and received approval for th e Initial Investment Decision. This milestone was an important step in moving the project forward. Human Factors workgroup meetings continued, this time with a focus on alarms and alerts for both end users and Tech Ops Monitor & Control. This work is ongo ing. Scheduling for the Tower, TRACON, and En - Route demo work is completed and all activities are scheduled in May. Upcoming activities Weekly / bi - weekly program status and engineering telcons (ongoing) En - Route demo group work with MITRE (scheduled for May) Tower / TRACON demo group work with MITRE (scheduled for May) Human Factors workgroups NATCA, FAA, and PASS (ongoing) Training telcons (scheduled monthly – ongoing) F LIGHT DATA INPUT OUTPUT (FDIO) Corey Soignet (LFT) is the FD IO 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 membership. FDIO The first article testing is still on going and the new printer is in operation at t he first key site ACY. ACY has helped the FDIO team identify an issue that was hidden in the programing code. That issue was quickly corrected and after further testing was reinstalled in ACY and no furthe r issues ha ve been discovered. The controllers have commented on the quality of the font on the new printer along with it being noticeably quieter. I90 will no longer serve as a key site due to conflict with ot her projects in their facility. The FDIO team has selec ted MCO and F11 to fill the void that I90 left for testing. After successful key site testing at both ACY and MCO/F11 we will then move forward with the additional key sites Honolulu, Alaska and Puerto Rico for their unique printer requirements. EFSTS M EM Tower is scheduled for the EFSTS Keypad Re placement on June 11 - 15, 2018. MEM Tower will be the last facility to install the new EFSTS Keypad Replacement. FIDI There is nothing to update at this time.