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NEXTGEN: Kevin McLaughlin (SCT) is the NATCA N ational NextGen Representative. Mr. McLaughlin forwarded the information below for the membership. • Participated in kickoff NATCA Safety and Technology Leadership Committee meeting. • Participated in numerous Leesburg Remote Tower telcons, as one of the alternate NATCA Reps on the program to primary Rep. Kieron Heflin. The program is currently evolving through the Requirements phase. • Partic ipated in multiple telcons on the Colorado Remote Tower Program, the Program has moved to the Site Survey s tage with monthly travel scheduled to Fort Collins scheduled beginning in June. • Participated in multiple meetings of the NextGen Facilities Outreach Workgroup. This workgroup is focusing on laying a collaborative foundation between ARTCC and underlying t erminal facilities 16 - 24 months prior to arrival of NextGen technologies to the workplace. • Participated in ATD - 3 Strategic Flo w Management Application (SFMA) d emo at MITRE C orporation. SFMA is part of the real time severe weather avoidance dynamic re - route technologies being developed. • Participated in Spring Collaborative Decision Making meeting and Stakeholders Workgroup at American Airline s Operations Center in Dallas, continuing the effort advocating for a Charter rewrite that includes NATCA as a member of the Stakeholder Group. • Participated in QWERTY keyboard evaluation meeting at the William Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. • Met with Jim Eck, incoming Assistant Administrator for NextGen, to discuss state of NextGen and Agency strategy for mitigating funding shortfalls. • Participated in ATD - 2 Demo and AEFS Electronic Flight Strips Kickoff at CLT, with NATCA ATD - 2 Representative Pete Slattery (CLT). OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY & CONTINUITY OFFICE (OCCO): Tammy Norman (ZTL) is the O CCO Article 48 Representative. This is a one - year detail at the Eastern Service Center to work on this project. Ms. Norman's report for this month is below. • The OCCO's original charter, TOCO, expired March 24 th . Close out documents have been drafted, and the remaining scope, budget, and risks have been transferred to Phase 2 for completion under the Operational Contingency and Continuity Office (OCCO). Work continues on the remain ing 13 deliverables of the 46. Integrated Project Team structure has been suspended awaiting a revised scope/mission orientation being determined at the executive level. The OCCO manager has submitted a proposal . • The Proof of Concept Process beg an on March 28, when members of the TOCO visited ZTL with the first Test Site Survey. These onsite visits will detail requirements needed for the support of ATC - 0 outages. ZTL and surrounding en route f acilities have been completed. The OCCO will continue the validat ion of technical requirements. • TechNet technical support met with OCCO and gathered requirements to develop a contingency tool to house the final technical requirement divestment plans. This tool would allow tech ops and FTI playbooks to be easi ly shared to