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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. The Cadre/SME scoping agreement has been finalized. Initial scheduling of CADRE will begin with Human Factors work and the upcoming SRM Panel in September. Human Factors workgroup planning meetings continued, with an emphasis on onboarding the AT CADRE and Tech Ops/PASS participants. A Safety Panel will be conducted to review the E-IDS program as a whole. Any hazards will be identified and worked through to find acceptable mitigations. The panel will be conducted at the end of September. Three to four NATCA participants will be included. Timers in current field IDSs were discussed. The E-IDS Team wants to ensure that all current needs of the field are appropriately addressed in the Engineering Requirements for E-IDS. Initial testing telcon conducted to review lab setup at ACY and discuss future needs. I traveled to D.C. and worked from HQ for the week of June 18th. Upcoming activities: • Weekly/bi-weekly program status and engineering telcons (ongoing) • Human Factors workgroups NATCA, FAA, and PASS (ongoing) • Training telcons (scheduled monthly – ongoing) • Weather and weather products telcon (scheduled end of May) FLIGHT DATA INPUT OUTPUT (FDIO) Corey Soignet (LFT) is the FDIO 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 the 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 further issues have been discovered. The controllers have commented on the quality of the font on the new printer along with it being noticeably quieter. The FDIO team installed the new printers in MCO/F11 and they reported back nothing but positives. MCO/F11 will continue to test the printers over the next couple of weeks. The new printer was installed in Puerto Rico but the controllers quickly identified an issue with the reverse shading that is used in their operation. The printer was then removed and the FDIO team is working on a software fix for the CERAP facilities. EFSTS

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