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A Combat Information Center (CIC), or Action Information Center (AIC) is the tactical center of a warship, manned and equipped to collect, present, manage, evaluate and disseminate information for the use of the embarked flag officer, commanding officer, and control agencies. Some control, assistance, and coordination functions may be delegated to the CIC. On aircraft carriers this area is called the Combat Direction Center (CDC). Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Military tactics (Greek: Taktikē, the art of organizing an army) are the collective name for methods for engaging and defeating an enemy in battle. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Flag Officer is a naval officer of a high rank entitling him to fly a personal flag, especially on his flagship. ... The commanding officer (CO) is the officer in command of a military unit. ... Four aircraft carriers, (bottom-to-top) Principe de Asturias, amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and light V/STOL carrier HMS Invincible, showing size differences of late 20th century carriers An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and recover aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. ...

Illustrations of CIC technology evolution

The following two photos of different CICs, 25 years apart, may to some degree exemplify the evolution of electronics/computer equipment and user interfaces used in such installations over that period of time. Modern CIC equipment is built up from many connected embedded systems. This article is about the engineering discipline. ... This article is about the machine. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... A router, an example of an embedded system. ...

CIC of the USS Spruance, 1975. [1]

CIC of the USS Carl Vinson, 2001. [2]

The term CIC, has also been used in many Science Fiction shows, such as Star Trek: Enterprise and Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi Original series). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x675, 116 KB) Summary The Combat Information Center from the destroyer USS Spruance (DD-963), 1975. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x675, 116 KB) Summary The Combat Information Center from the destroyer USS Spruance (DD-963), 1975. ... USS Spruance (DD-963), affectionaly nicknamed The Spru-Can, is the lead ship of the Spruance-class destroyers in the United States Navy. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2100x1500, 1300 KB) Summary At sea aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Oct. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2100x1500, 1300 KB) Summary At sea aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Oct. ... The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is a United States Navy Nimitz class supercarrier named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

See also

• Air Defense Control Center
• Control center solutions
• Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
• Mission Control Center
• Naval Tactical Data System
• Tactical communications

A Air Defense Control Center is the tactical center from where is controlled the air space of a given area. ... The Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) is an L band TDMA network radio system used by the United States armed forces and their allies to support data communications needs, principally in the air and missile defense community. ... Mission Control Center (MCC) is a unit that manages aerospace flights. ... NTDS training in a mock-up of a shipboard CIC Naval Tactical Data System, commonly NTDS, refers to a computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships. ... Tactical communications: Communications in which information of any kind, especially orders and decisions, are conveyed from one command, person, or place to another within the tactical forces, usually by means of electronic equipment, including communications security equipment, organic to the tactical forces. ...

External links

• CIC room (World War II)
• CIC manual (World War II)
• Naval Ordanance and Gunnery, 1958
• USS Sterett, CIC 1968 -1991

US Navy Surface Warfare Officer School - Division Officer Training

• Surface CIC
• Air CIC
• Sub-Surface CIC