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Encyclopedia > Combined Air Operations Center

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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Divisions

Strategy Division

Plans Division

Operations Division

Air Mobility Division

Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Division

Falconer AOCs

Non-Deployable

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Deployable

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Tailorable AOCs

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Functional AOCs

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Training/Experimentation

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AOC-equipping Units

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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. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague. ... NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on April 4, 1949. ...


Active AOCs

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Inactive AOCs

  • Balkans Combined Air Operations Center - Vicenza, Italy (Deactivated in 2001)[11]

Vicenza is a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione. ...

See Also

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ...

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"

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