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copies must also be maintained in the operational area to provide backup. · ERAM: o When a facility declares ATC Zero and divests airspace to surrounding facilities, ERAM doesn't recognize the outage (ATC Zero airspace). o Automation between facilities that do not "touch" (AORs don't touch) before the outage does not exist. These issues are being addressed to correct this in ERAM, and there is testing with overlapping AOIs and other workaroun ds for flight plan transfer and radar hand - offs. o Corrected, the system would be extremely efficient without manual flight plan coordination; thus requiring less staffing. TIM E BASED FLOW MANAGEMENT (TBFM): Eric Owens (I90) represents the controllers on TBFM as the Article 48 Representative. His update for this week is below. · Last week the Ops Team had members at ZME and ZID supporti ng the CLT MetroPlex activity. o E verything appeared to go well. o Mr. Owens is doing some work to follow - u p on an issue he was told about between ZTL and ZDC. · Mr. Owens was in D . C . attending meetings at headquarters and at Lockheed Martin. o On Thursday, the grou p met about TSAS requirements. · This week Mr. Owens will be at Raytheon working on TSAS CHI. TERMINAL FLIGHT DATA MANAGER (TFDM): Matt Baugh (IAH) is the Article 48 for TFDM. His report for this week is below: · Monday - Traveled to Phoenix to observe their AEFS system with the EWR AEFS team. · Tuesday - Called into the AEFS update, shadowed Mike Schrempp in PHX tower o AEFS build 5.3.0.2 is still in testing with an implementation date in CLE of Nov. 1 still likely. Once the build is installed and stable in CLE, we will update the PHX system a couple of weeks later. o CLE is having a couple of minor issues with the system in the new tower, but those are being addressed in the next couple of builds. o SFO will be getting their training system in mid Nov. and their local adaptations are currently being built into that system. o Mike Schrempp showed Mr. Baugh around PHX tower and walked him through their loc al adaptations and operations. Their system is still working well, they are only resetting about once a week. · Wednesday - Met with the EWR AEFS team and Mik e Schrempp again, attended an SVT meeting as well as a DSP waterfall discussion with the EWR team and Surface Ops. o Mr. Baugh and the EWR team were given an overview of AEFS by Mike Schrempp, and he showed us the PHX training lab, and went over their ad aptations so that the EWR team could gain a greater understanding of what to look for in their local adaptations. o The group, which included EWR OM Bob Gibney, discussed how AEFS works with their arrival strips, their local adaptation needs,