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o Tuesday participated in the Indianapolis ADS - B Only, South Bend status update, the Fusion Pre - Op, and the Fresno ADS - B status update telcons. o Thursday participated in the Rochester ADS - B only and the NATCA SBS weekly telcons. o Worked for currency other days. · Dan Hamilton (SFO), National Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC) Rep o ASSC: Still no forward movement on this program a s we continue to wait for direction from the agency. o Vehicle ADS - B: Due to the continued lack of collaboration by the Spectrum Office, elevated this issue to NATCA National for some assistance. As a result, had a very positive conversation with the Agenc y's Air Traffic Office. They were extremely receptive to the concerns and promised to follow up. o ASDE - X Refresh: Continues to move forward smoothly. · Andrew Stachowiak (I90) o Participated in the Implementation, SBS Weekly, Fusion Pre Operation, an d our NATCA SBS weekly teleconferences. o Traveled to Austin Approach to eval uate their Fusion presentation. The Fusion display looked very good, and the support from the facility was outstanding. Tech Ops and OSF wo rked with us to analyze issues. There is a need to raise the vertical ADS - B drop filter around satellite airports to 200 feet; this would prevent an ADS - B aircraft from staying on a controller ' s scope after landing. Austin successfully transitioned to operational use of Fusion on Thursday. · Tom Zarick (ZDV), National Interval Management Rep o Spent the week at MITRE in support of the ZHU Adaptation Demo. Conducted 16 runs during the three - day visit. Observed traffic flows from all four - corner posts, assessed the impact to MIT settings for e xtended metered p oints and coupled meter points. The location of the meter points in the current adaptation was also discussed. o Although ZHU seemed optimistic regarding GIM - S, the outstanding TBFM issues will still need to be resolved prior to installati on in the ZHU Support String. TEMPORARY OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY OFFICE (TOCO): Tammy Norman (ZTL) is the TOCO Article 48 Representative. This is a one - year detail at the Eastern Service Center to work on this project. Ms. Norman's report for this week is below. · The TOCO team attended a demo of the SMART tool September 15 - 17 in Oklahoma City. SMART is an Air Traffic Control simulation system dedicated to the training of Air Traffic Controllers at all levels. ATSI demonstrated that SMART is capable of simulating complex scenarios for tower and enroute fa cilities for training purposes. o The purpose of attending a presentation of the capabilities of the Simulation Model for ATC R&D and Training (SMART) to provide Operational Contingency Planning (OCP ) support. o At the invitation of Leon Stinson of ATSI, we were provided with a Power Point presentation of the Operational