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Testing with the Departure Spacing Program (DSP) was successful from Fe b. 22 - Mar. 3. The site, with the help of the TFDM team, has ben condu cting shadow operations since the successful testing of the DSP interface. These operations have been conducted during all hours of the day and have been successful and the facility has seen no freeze - ups to date. Training of the facility is nearly complet e and they plan on go ing IOC in the middle of April. o SFO IOC in SFO has been moved to the summer of 2017 to allow the facility time to adjust to their new tower, which they will move to sometime in September/October. The team is continuing to work with AJV (Requirements) on the SFO adaptation requests in order to more closely align with how they work traffic today. o LAS A heads - down update study was conducted on Mar. 15 - 17 to include the TM positions. IOC in LAS has been moved from September t o the November/ December time frame, to allow the facility time to adjust to their new tower, opening in late August. This will have the additional benefit of giving the engineers an extra two months to improve the system. o CLT IOC in CLT is also planned fo r the December ti meframe. A kick - off meeting is planned with the facili ty and NASA on May 6. At this point, no funding has been approved by NextGen , so installation is at a slight risk. • SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) o The newest version of the SVT with additional filtering c apabilities was deployed to the r emaining nine sites on March 4th. No updates have been received from the sites indicating the usefulness of the additional capabilities but the early reports from SCT and SDF were positive. Temporary Operational Contingen cy Office (TOCO): Tammy Norman (ZTL) is the TOCO Article 48 Representative. This is a one - year detail at the Eastern Service C enter to work on this project. Ms. Norman's report for this month is below. • The TOCO continues to have weekly telcons with the IPT s, and we have now included the OS G Field Team to assist as SMEs. • The DOT IG audit team met with the TOCO Core Team February 17 - 18 to evaluate the TOCO's efforts to assist the FAA with mitigating the impact of recent air traffic control system disruptions and w ith updating contingency plans. The DOT IG audit team stated it would be their recommendation that the TOCO get an extension and/or the permanent contingency office to maintain contingency plans throughout the NAS. On March 7, the TOCO manager Tony Je nkins received word that the TOCO has been given an 18 - month extension. • The TOCO cond ucted a meeting on February 25 with the Administrative Services Group, Performance Analysis Team to obtain a status update on Dec ision Lens prioritization tool. TOCO will be using the results of the survey developed by