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management was instrumenta l to the successful completion. Initial adaptation issues were ironed out by Greg Jahn (NATCA OSF). Great job to all involved. The week of conventi on Mr. Rose was not traveling. This gave him time to complete all CEDAR items and Recurrent Training. The week of April 23 Mr. Rose and Kyle Ness (NATCA M98) traveled to WJHTC for the new op tical trackball demonstration. This demo included a screw that ensures cont rollers cannot rem ove the ball from the hardware. Ops testing conducted at PCT on the new optical trackballs are ongoing; initial reports are great. In addition to the trackball demo, Mr. Ness and Mr. Rose attended the Terminal Spacing and Sequencing (TSA S) SRM panel and DRB. The morning of April 25 , Jim VanZee (NATCA GRR), Joe Yannone (NATCA Region X), Kyle Ness, and Aaron Rose completed the review of Common Terminal D igitizer (CTD) weather display. It was found that in Linear Polarization (LP) the wea ther was adequate for deployment. April 26t brough t TLH a fully functional ASR8. Over the last two years TLH has had the inability to utilize channel B of the radar system. This has finally been fixed and reports show no issues at this time. Operati onal Support Facility (OSF) training which has been under development for two year s is ready to hit the streets. In early June 2018, the Raytheon developed and NATCA reviewed training sho uld be available to the field. Big thanks go out to Mike Tate (NATCA Denver OSF) for his effort to ensure our brothers and sisters are properly trained. The week of April 30 , Mr. Rose traveled to Washington, D.C. for the TAMR deployment and implementation meeting with 11 TAMR SMEs and the TAMR progra m office. During the event, team building exercises and me ssaging issues were discussed. In addition to this meeting Mr. Rose meet with AJV - 7 requirements, TAMR progra m manager, and NATCA National. Aaron Rose and James Keith (NATCA AJV ART 114) met to discuss STARS Enhancement s 2 and how the Terminal CHI team will interact with SMEs already assigned to the program. High Desert TRACON (JCF) will be receiving a STARS system in 2019, this facility is not on the TAMR waterfall but Mr. Rose attended a meeti ng on May 8. NATCA TAMR is working in concert with Jon Wigfall (JCF FacRep) to ensure the Department of Defense (DOD) provides the proper training, equipment, and adaptation. NATCA TAMR is working closely with Terminal Second Level Engineering (TSLE) to ensure all ARTS 1E and STARS LITE facilities to include contract towers are provi ded training on TAMR software. A telcon was held on May 9 with NATCA Training lead Ross Costa (RSW), Robert Faulkner (D01), who is leading the ARTS1E/STARS LITE transitions and TSLE, TAMR PO, and A aron Rose. Of the nine facilities, which nee d to transition to TAMR STARS, four are NATCA facilities and the rest are Federal Contract Towers (FCT). Training will be a combination of CBI and hands - on to ensure our union brothers and sisters are prepared fo r NextGen. TAMR Deployment and Common Terminal Digitizer (CTD) Update Submitted by Jim VanZee (GRR)