ACCS is the $500M NATO Air Command and Control System programme, which is intended to replace the existing air command and control systems in Europe from 2009 onwards. At the highest level it comprises the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) from which the air battle is run. Beneath this level of command is the Air Control Centre (ACC), Recognised Air Picture (RAP) Production Centre (RPC) and Sensor Fusion Post (SFP). The programme comprises both static and deployable elements. Under separate funding, NATO will also procure deployable sensors for the deployable ACCS component (DAC). NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[2] (NATO; French: ; also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, the Western Alliance, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. ...

The programme is managed by NACMA with scientific support from NC3A, system and software engineering support form NPC, logistic support from NAMSA and operational support from SHAPE. The contract to build ACCS was awarded to the Air Command Systems International (ACSI) consortium in November 1999. Since 2000 ACSI is part of ThalesRaytheonSystems TRS. NACMA is the NATO ACCS Management Agency. ... The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) was formed in 1996 from the merging of the previous SHAPE Technical Centre (STC) in The Hague, The Netherlands and the NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency (NACISA) in Brussels, Belgium. ... NPC can stand for: National Panhellenic Conference, an organizing body of fraternal University campus organizations National Paralympic Committee, equivalent to the National Olympic Committee National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China National Provincial Championship, the name of a now-defunct domestic rugby competition in New Zealand. ... In geometry, two sets have the same shape if one can be transformed to another by a combination of translations, rotations and uniform scalings. ... TRS may mean: tip ring sleeve Telephone Relay Service Tandy / Radio Shack Tristar This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The Integrate System Support of the ACCS system when fileded will be provided by NPC supported by NAMSA. NPC can stand for: National Panhellenic Conference, an organizing body of fraternal University campus organizations National Paralympic Committee, equivalent to the National Olympic Committee National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China National Provincial Championship, the name of a now-defunct domestic rugby competition in New Zealand. ...

External links

• NATO ACCS Management Agency - main website
• NATO C3 Agency - main website
• NATO Programming Centre - main website
• NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency - main website
• SHAPE - main website