Air Operations Center

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The AN/USQ-163 Falconer, better known as the Air and Space Operations Center (AOC), is the senior element of the Theater Air Control System (TACS) and is the weapon system Commander, Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR) provides the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) for planning and executing theater-wide aerospace forces. When the COMAFFOR is also the JFACC, the AOC is also the Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC). In cases of Allied or Coalition (multinational) operations, the AOC is also a Combined Aerospace Operations Center (CAOC).

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[edit] Divisions

There are five divisions in the AOC. These separate, but distinct, organizations fuse information that eventually becomes the Air Tasking Order.

[edit] Strategy Division (STRAT)

  • Strategy Plans Team
  • Strategy Guidance Team
  • Operational Assessment Team

[edit] Combat Plans Division (CPD)

  • Target Effects Team
  • Master Air Attack Plan Team
  • Air Tasking Order Production Team
  • Command and Control Planning Team

[edit] Combat Operations Division (COD)

  • Offensive Ops Team
  • Defensive Ops Team
  • Senior Intelligence Duty Officer
  • Interface Control

[edit] Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Division

  • Analysis, Correlation, and Fusion
  • Targeting and Tactical Assessment
  • ISR Operations

[edit] Air Mobility Division (AMD)

  • Air Mobility Team
  • Airlift Control Team
  • Air Refueling Team
  • Air Mobility Control Team
  • Aeromedical Evacuation Control Team

[edit] Falconer AOCs

[edit] Non-Deployable

[edit] Deployable

[edit] Tailorable AOCs

[edit] Functional AOCs

[edit] Training/Experimentation

[edit] AOC-equipping Units

[edit] NATO Air Operations Centres

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) also uses the Combined Air Operations Center concept at multiple locations. Supporting the air component commands are four static Combined Air Operations Centres (CAOCCs) to direct NATO air operations – in Udem , Germany ; Finderup , Denmark ; Poggio Renatico , Italy ; and Larissa , Greece ; and two deployable CAOCs in Udem and Poggio Renatico. The static CAOCs can support Allied air operations from their fixed locations, while the deployable CAOCs will move where they are needed.

[edit] Active AOCs

[edit] Inactive AOCs

  • Balkans Combined Air Operations Center - Vicenza, Italy (Deactivated in 2001)
  • CAOC 3 - Bodoe, Norway (Deactivated in 2008)

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Davis-Monthan Getting AOC
  2. ^ NYANG - 152d AOG Homepage
  3. ^ 112d Air Operations Squadron Homepage
  4. ^ Air Force Reserve News
  5. ^ "CAOC 2: State-of-the-Art Engineering for more Security" Allied Air Component Command HQ Ramstein - Press Release
  6. ^ Globalsecurity.org
  7. ^ CAOC-6 Factsheet
  8. ^ Allied Joint Force Command Naples
  9. ^ "Air Operations Centre in Spain" - NATO Official Website
  10. ^ US Army NATO
  11. ^ "Combined Air Operations Center will move to new Italy location"

[edit] External links