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underlying airports. Having an SVT depiction of their underlying facilities will ultimately increase their awareness of surface traffic and congestion, and should lend to more informed decisions regarding TMI's, flow changes, etc. 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 April 30th member of the TBFM Ops Team attended a meeting in DC at MITRE to start working on improved metering to PHL. Representatives from the first-tier facilities attended and a lot of current data was looked at for PHL and there were a lot of great discussions about improvements moving forward. The main purpose of this meeting was to get a scope of the work that will need to be done and most agreed leaving the meeting that there is a lot of work to be done, but there is great buy-on to make the necessary changes to improve TBFM to PHL. Additionally, IDAC Site Requirement Surveys were conducted at AGS, CAE, LIT, and IAH. These Site Requirement surveys are necessary to make sure that the IDAC Tower equipment is installed correctly for each tower's requirements. The week of May 7 IDAC Site Requirement surveys were conducted at ATL and BHM. In conjunction with the IDAC activities, new Ops Team members visited ZTL for familiarization and additionally training on Arrival system management. Additionally, the Ops team supported the Program Office and visited ZOA to plan the implementation of 4.7, plans for IDAC training/implementation and eventual T2T connectivity with ZLA. As Sustainment has been identified as the top priority for TBFM getting ZOA up on the most current system and having them be able to stay on it was very important. ZOA was still on 4.5 version of TBFM due to issues with 4.6 and this meant that adjacent facilities could not move forward until a correct version was delivered and tested at ZOA. ZOA was very accommodating and a good plan was laid out for support for them from the Program office and Ops Team. The following week of May 21 the TBFM Ops Team was at the Tech Center to participate in Tech Center Tuesday. There was a display with GUIs showing TBFM functionality as well as a display of TSAS. Ops Team members helped answer questions on the various systems within TBFM. These team members stayed at the Tech Center and helped facilitate a demonstration of the GIMS Speed Advisories. This presentation was given to NATCA FTR's. Additionally, Ops Team members were at PHL conducting TBFM training to the TMC's for the week. This training was a general refresher on TBFM Arrival System Management and additionally some classroom training was conducted as well. The same week TBFM Leadership meet at the Tech Center to review the information gleaned from the MITRE PHL meeting two weeks earlier and come up with a plan and general timeline to accomplish the PHL metering goals of NEC. The week of May 28th was a holiday week but still a busy work week for the team. Members of the team travelled to ZOA to support the installation of 4.7.1 P3. This new

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