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other experts in the room to make improvements to their OCP's for future outages. ATOC w ill continue to work with both ZMA and ZSU to make incremental improvements to each of their OCP's. After a successful start to the rollout, ATOC traveled to ZFW to continue to refine their process for going to a facility to facilitate improvements in con tingency planning. At this visit ATOC did a brief run through of the newly developed Table Top Exercises (TTX) that facilities will use to test the viability of their plans. With participation from ZHU, D10 and ZFW they were able to find several areas that need some improvement. Each facility left the meeting with new goals in mind to better their plans. ATOC is planning to return to both ZFW and ZMA in the near future to dive deeper into each facility's plans and help facilitate improvements to all of them . DATACOMM Chad Geyer (ZLA) is the Article 11 4 Representative for DataComm. Below is his update : Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) sites are now sending over 43,500 clearances a week. RNO is now a CPDLC tower. CMH is starting to run CPDLC file and fly. File and Fly is where controllers are sending CPDLC clearances but are still required to get voice read backs. This generally runs for about 10 days. RSW and CHS are now running PDC on a brand - new Tower Datalink Services (TDLS) and will begin CPDLC in about a month. The 12.5 build was delayed until May due to some regression issues discov ered in testing as well as adding some fixes that were found at LAX on 12.4a. These issues have not been reported at other towers, but with LAX being our busiest CPDLC facility , it was important that we get those fixes in. En Route site visits for Segment 1 Phase 2 (S1P2) were held with ZBW and ZMA and turnout was gr eat. The program office spends two days with the facility to inform them of what En Route services will look like, what is required for training, adaptation and implementation. The DataComm Im plementation Team (DCIT) held their 59th meeting since the program began. This meeting was held in Washington, D . C ., and covered some flight deck working group issues, Airline Operation Center (AOC) issues as well as final requirements for any tower enhanc ements the airlines might want to see. The NextGen Integration Working Group (NIWG) also met in D . C . to discuss the rolling plan that will be delivered to the NACsc. These recommendations come from industry and are presented to the FAA. We v isited with ZTL to answer any questions that may have come up since their site briefing. We also w orked with their FAST team and also with SGET developers to answer any questions they may have. The FTR is fully engaged and working issues as soon as they come up. They should be fully ready to go when their implementation is ready. The program office c ontinues to work with the key sites on ins tallation of the EAE100 build. It now appears that EAE110 will be the first build that is deployed operational. Key