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o Rodger A De an, Senior Advisor, AJV - 0 relayed this information to the TOCO and requested notice if this date was unrealistic. o This information is requested to close out recommendation #1 of the audit after the ZAU incident: Apply the lessons learned from the Chicago C enter incident to the redesign of operational contingency plans to implement the divestiture of airspace for all Center facilities. • The Proof of Concept Process began on March 28, when members of the TOCO visited ZTL with the first Test Si te Survey. o The TO CO will do a Site Survey for eac h of the CONUS ARTCCs and SJU. A memo was prepared to inform the facility stakeholder of th e proof of concept procedures. o Ms. Norman will advise the NATCA facility reps and NATCA technical reps of the facility visits. o Member s of the TOCO will meet with Air Traffic and the NATCA Contingency Rep to finalize divestments plans. Then, Air Traffic will work with local Tech Ops to complete requirements. o With the completion of the Site Surveys, the facility's requirements will be com pleted, and Tech ops and FTI/Harris Corp can make playbooks for ATC - zero events. Extra equipment that is necessary for contingency purposes shall be labeled and reserved for contingency only. o The TOCO has determined a waterfall method for facilities to rec eive the fun ding to complete requirements. After all site surveys are completed, an installation schedule will be developed based on a prioritization already determined using Decision Lens . • The OCP Field Team Meeting in Atlanta: The OSGs from each of the r egions and the POC for the ACT - 2 data base joined members of the TOCO March 15 - 17 to write the OCP guides for ATCT and TRACONs. The guides are general guidance for entering OCPs into the ACT - 2 in compliance with JO 1900.47E. The guides can be found on the M yFAA.gov TOCO website. • The TOCO's Last Task: Is to assess the effectiveness of current Tier 1 terminal domain OCPs against the Admin istrator's efficiency targets. "To address Tier 1 TRACON facilities, TOCO recently requested help from AJR to facilitate a T TX (tabletop exercise) at each ARTCC to examine throughpu t during a TRACON ATC - 0 event. o The information derived from the TTX's will be used by TOCO to begin a gap analysis of the facilities' contingency performance estimate s and actual performance data. o Re sult of the gap analysis will form the basis for next steps and e xecutive investment decisions. o It will also be used to determine next steps for improving the NAS continge ncy posture during ATC - 0 events . TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR ): Mitch Herrick (MIA) leads NATCA's TAMR Team as the Article 48 Re presentative for this project. The update for the team is below. • The past month has seen a swirl of TAMR accomplishments. STARS transitions were completed at multiple locations, and the de ployment schedule will now acce lerate for the next two years. Here is an explanation of each part of the program and where we currently are: