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configurations, extended wiring for shelf pullout, and a few other items over the coming weeks. The team returned for two weeks in October to conduct the training of IDAC at ATL, GSO, AGS, and BHM, and had members at ZTL attend. Ops team members travelled to ZOA to verify the TBFM IDAC T2T connectivity for ZOA and train the TMCs on the new switching capability. Now with TBFM's newest software release TMUs (if set up for it) can have their tower's IDAC schedule into adjacent facilities arrival systems. This capability is called T2T and now TMCs can have the flexibility to have IDAC scheduling switch between their local EDC (Miles-in-Trail) system into an adjacent arrival system. There is some underlying software logic that does need to be trained and the Ops team members spent the week going over this with ZOA TMU. Out of this activity, the group also created a simple training document that can be used to explain this system in the future. October 7-13, 2019 Update ATO OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY GROUP (ATOC) Jason Grider (ZFW) is the Article 114 Rep for NATCA. Also, included in Grider's duties is Article 114 representation for the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). His report is below: During the past month, the ATCO Group has continued with their new approach of completing all of the core 30 towers by the end of FY 2020. The team has travelled to 12 towers over the past months and has successfully assisted them with revising their operational contingency plans (OCP). The ATCO Group has finally been able to hire a permanent group manager. He has been working diligently to catch up on the work that the ATCO Group has completed and is still working on. I have been working directly with the manager to ensure that they are on the same page as far as how NATCA can help make the rebuild of contingency plans safer and more efficient. I was able to travel to the Tech Center in Atlantic City and brief the ATOP workgroup on the work that has now been completed for the oceanic airspace in Anchorage and Oakland. This project has taken over two years to complete and required the dedication of over 30 NATCA members, Management, Tech Ops, and Automation/2nd level engineering to complete. I would like to thank everyone who has put so much time and energy into this project. The next big goal is to complete the work already started on the New York oceanic plan. They expect to complete this by early next year. AUTOMATED TERMINAL PROXIMITY ALERT (ATPA) Mike Sanders (SCT) represents the membership as the Article 114 Rep for ATPA. His report is below: I participated in several telcons involving future enhancement to ATPA. Next week I will be attending a meeting at Raytheon to finalize ATPA processing distance on ghost for