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divestin g airspace in ATC Zero events. Due to financial constraints, the Tech Center meetings have been split into two meetin gs, divi ding the east and west. The TOCO is in the process of creating a third meeting to "zip - up" the central ARTCC's OPC agreements. The third meeting date is TBD. o September 21 - 25: Eastern Meeting: ZAU, ZOB, ZBW, ZID, ZME, ZTL, ZDC, ZMA, ZJX, ZHU, ZNY, ZSU o Octob er 19 - 23: Western Meeting: ZSE, ZOA, ZLA, ZLC, ZDV, ZAB, ZMP, ZKC, ZFW o Central Meeting: ZKC, ZAU, ZID, ZME, ZHU, ZFW, ZAB, ZMP, ZOB • The Oper ational Contingency Field Team includes an OSG rep from each of the service areas along with a command center rep an d 4 TOCO members. o Continued discussion about determining a standard to use when measuring and ultimately comparing facilities against administrator's efficiency targets. o Discussed the publication vs. ef fective date of Order 1900.47E. o Discussed the efforts of the Southern Service Center and Tech Center Tech Ops assisting San Juan in their development of divesting airspace to ZMA and ZNY: equipment limitations and serious constraints and limitations on infrastructure. • The TOCO Website: https://my.faa.gov/org/linebusiness/ato/toco.html o The topics discussed on this site are: • Contingency Strategy • What We Do • About Us • Milestones SURVEILLANCE and BROADCAST SERVICES (SBS) OFFICE : Eric Labardini (ZHU) i s NATCA's Article 48 Representative leading the SBS Team. Below are reports from the members of the SBS Article 48 Team. • Eric Labardini (ZHU), National SBS Article 48 Rep o Shortened Labor Day week for the team. o Two short telcons this week with ZJX and MSY on Gulf of Mexico Radio Stations. • SBS Program Office has identified which Radios are more critical than ot hers based on comment from ZHU. • Some Radios are also important to ZJX and MSY, so confirmation was obtained that both facilities rank the sites the sa me. o Participated in the weekly ADS - B Resiliency Assessment telcon. The effort is finally reaching a stage to co nsider scheduling of lab tests. NATCA SBS team members would be needed to evaluate the effect of ADS - B jamming or spoofing injected into automati on platforms. o Participated in the biwe ekly Fusion Focus Group telcon. o Participated in a Separation Standards telcon that relayed the analysis of Hilo Approach control and the feasibility of ope ration in a Fused display mode. • The results were pos itive despi te initial concerns. • This removes a hurdle and allows the effort to deploy Fusion at HCF and other MEARTS sites to continue.