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transitions at STARS Lite, ARTS 1 E and Section 804 transitions. We followed up this discussion with a larger stakeholder Telcon to develop plans for these sites. Operational Support Facilities (OSF) Update Submitted by Scott Kendrick (North Texas - OSF) Mr. Kendrick attended the TAMR Implementation Summit, April 30 – May 3 , in Washington D.C. that focused on TAMR transitions, lessons learned from past transitions and how to best move forward as other programs will be integrating in the future with TAMR (STARS) as well as the SBS, TAMR look Ahead and weekly OSF Technical tel econs. Software Planning Board (SPB) STARS will migrate to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system with the S6.R12 build. To prepare for the change, the SPB is working to adjust build content for R9, R10 and R11 to expedite release and provide less risk to the initial first step software release of R10. Operating Testing and Evaluation (OT&E) NATCA OSF SMEs from NTOSF, DVOSF and GCOSF attended the initial test planning for the S6.R8 build scheduled for June 2018. This starts the beginning which wil l lead to formal test events for TSAS functionality in S6.R8 later this year. STARS Safety Risk Management (SRM) Panel Stakeholders paneled 4 TSAS STRs being introduced in the S6R8 software build to determine if the new functionality introduces any safety risk to the NAS. Program Trouble Report Working Group (PTRWG) SMEs from OSF will attend the May meeting. System Technical Reports Working Group (STRWG) Reviewed a proposal to develop an off - line tool that will allow STARS sites to covert CDR data into AT Coach scenarios. Stakeholders are nearing concurrence on the proposed software modification. TERMIN AL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM) Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Articl e 114 Representative for TFDM. Mr. Baugh's update is below. Equipment has been installed at the Tech Center and has gone through the contractual Produc tion Acceptance Testing (PAT). Full lab integration is expected to be complete by September of 2018. Once the lab is complete, we will start the process of development and then operational test ing prior to going to full Operational Testing (OT) on site in PHX sometime in April 2019. On April 25 - 26 Leidos hosted the Build 2 Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The PDR's main goal is to go over the list of requirements for Build 2 with eh vendor and ensure that both sides have a mutual understanding of what the FAA ne eds our of those requirements. This is intended to help limit the back and forth design process and hopefully reduce the amount of cha nges in the future. The meeting was very producti ve