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begi nning of November. Once completed, the build will be installed in CLE and PHX shortly after. o A 32 " screen has been approved for AEFS, and we are working to obtain an acceptable mod el. o The BOS OER has been pushed back to the beginning of 2016 due to budget constraints from the CR. o Final word has been sent to the Eastern Service Area notifying them of the two key sites for the EFSTS keypad replacement process, congratulations to PHL and BNA. Thank you to all the other facilities who stepped up and volunteered. o With the help of NATCA Training Rep Tom Adcock, we are working to have a validated training for AEFS in a couple of months. · Wednesday - In SFO to meet with t he local AEFS team. · SFO will receive the AEFS training system in mid November and be gin training around April 2016. · Thursday - In SFO to finish meeting with the local AEFS team. · Friday - Traveled home. TIME BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM ): Eric Owens (I90) is NATCA's Art icle 48 Representative on TBFM. Mr. Owens' provided the information below for this week's update. · The week of October 12, 2015, the TBFM Ops Team suppo rted MetroPlex at ZID and ZME. Both facilities were u sing TBFM to schedule departures to CLT. Our team assisted th e facilities with this effort. · Mr. Owens continued efforts with the Program Office to determine what caused t h e IDAC system at ZID to fail. o A test was run which recreated the fai lure. However, the team has yet to det ermine the underlying cause. 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 pr oject. Ms. Norman's report for this week is below. · TOCO: o The TOCO continues to assist and track deliverables assigned to each of the Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leads. The TOCO has transferred 32 deliverables to Technical Operations and ha s completed 17 of 49 remaining deliverables. The TOCO IPT has completed 4 of 9 deliverables. o This information, other TOCO activities, our budget and the manager's message are reported to our sponsors, monthly. We are providing information to ATO and ASH for their present ation to the Executive Council: Resiliency, Security, and Contingency Update : Lessons Applied from ZAU . The presentation, due at the end of the month, will show improvements in the NAS one year after the National Corrective Action P lan (CAP) was created. The TOCO has had significant accomplishments this year as we move toward the completion of the mitigatio ns defined in the National CAP. · POLICY: o The 1900.47E has completed the SMS process and awaiting