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the TMC position, while SFO and LAS will have their TMC heads down stud ies done as soon as scheduling perm its. o EWR Training for EWR Tech Ops began the week of 1/18 and has since been completed. Testing of the DSP functionality in AEFS will begin in the EWR tower cab on the mid shifts from 2/21 - 2/23. Additional live testing of the system will occur on mid shifts beginning in March with members of the local tea m leading the effort. o SFO We have continued to work with the facility to identify all of their adaptation requests. We are in the process of developing engineering builds for them to test the adaptations prior to training the facility. AEFS installation in the existi ng tower is expected in March. IOC in the new tower is expected in October. A training suite for the TSS lab will be installed in late February or early March. o LAS The initial Kick - off meeting planned for 1/28 was cancelled due to the weather th at affected the DC area and was rescheduled for 2/18. The meeting went well and included representatives from LAS NA TCA, management, and tech ops. They are scheduled to move to the new tower in late August or early September and begin using AEFS at that ti me. Installation, training, and use of AEFS in the old tower as opposed to the new tower was discussed at great length. The facility will provide a detailed schedule of how that would affect the staffing by the end of February. o CLT IOC for CLT is planned for late 2016 to support the NASA ATD - 2 project. • SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) o There was another telcon to discuss the deployment of the additional filtering capabilities. It was decided to hold off on deploying to the additional 9 facilities until AJV - 7 c an have more time to assess the requirements. VOR MINIMUM OPERATIONAL NETWORK (MON): John Vogelsang (P31) is the Article 48 Represen tative for the VOR MON project. Mr. Vogelsang's report is below. • All of the telcons that were scheduled since my last update were cancelled but we did have a meeting in DC with members of several PBN groups present. The group met for two days and discussed the process of VOR discontinuance. • It seems a lot of the folks on the Tech Ops and engineering side of the Agency don't really grasp what is needed on the Air Traffic side. There was a desire by Tech Ops and engineering to have the SRMs done in group form at the SA level instead of at the facil ity level where they should be.