Air and Space Operations Center
As a Combined Air Operations Centre ( CAOC ) is referred to NATO, a multinational manned command post for directing air forces. Tasks include planning, management and commissioning of air operations of assigned forces.
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- 6.2 Notes and references
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Air surveillance
Already in peace a CAOC within the NATO Integrated Air Defence System ( NATINADS ) is responsible for air traffic control in an assigned - transnational - geographical area, a so-called Air Policing Area. For this purpose it is in connection with military radar stations and civilian air traffic control units. The respective CAOC interceptors are associated with the event of irregularities in air traffic, which can alert it for a visual inspection or for an interception.
Leadership
In crises and conflicts plans and coordinates the CAOC offensive, defensive and supporting air operations of assigned forces. This includes aircraft, as well as ground-based components, such as anti-aircraft missiles associations. After a written order by the Air Tasking Order ( ATO), the CAOC monitors the air operations and engages in ongoing missions when needed. In peace the procedures are practiced regularly.
The CAOC coordinates the own operations with those of other branches of the armed forces and worked with other NATO agencies and national command authorities. It is also the superior use each command defined for National Control and Reporting Centre ( CRC).
Laying Eligible CAOC
During the Cold War, the existing CAOC were housed in bunkers and thus stationary. Currently, several of these command posts are complemented by technical and organizational measures to a deployable component.
Organization
The CAOC of NATO in Europe are subject to the Allied Air Command Ramstein (AC Ramstein ) in the north and the Allied Air Command Izmir ( Izmir AC ) in the south.
In the recent NATO command structure existed in the area of AC Ramstein the CAOC Uedem in Germany and the CAOC Finderup in Denmark, as well as in the field of AC Izmir the CAOC Poggio Renatico in Italy and the CAOC Larissa in Greece. The CAOC Uedem and Poggio Renatico have deployable components.
NATO decided in 2011, a further reduction in the meantime reduced to five centers to just two in Uedem for Northern and Southern Europe in Torrejón, the latter CAOC was opened on 7 February 2013. (see below the previously existing centers)
Be made the CAOC through a two - or three- star general who by a leadership group ( Command Group), Personnel Administration and Logistics ( A1/A4 ) and of Finance ( Budget & Finance; A8) is supported.
In a CAOC specialists for offensive, defensive and supporting air operations are used. They work in the fields of Ongoing Operations (Current Operations, A3 ), Operation Planning ( Operations Plan; A5) and exercises ( Exercise and Training; A7). Increasingly she be by personnel from the fields of intelligence and reconnaissance ( intelligence, A2 ) and the IT support ( Communication & Information System, A6). The personal scope of the peace up to about 160 soldiers of different nations, with the bulk of each is provided by the host country.
- CAOC 1, Finderup ( DK ) until 30 June 2013.
- CAOC 2, in Uedem (GE), formerly Kalkar, see above continue
- CAOC 3, Reitan (NO)
- CAOC 4, in Meßstetten (GE) to 31 December 2008, command post as CRC continues to operate until 1 October 2013.
- CAOC 5 in Poggio Renatico (IT) to 26 June 2013 ( Deployable Air Command and Control Centre is on)
- CAOC 6, in Eski Sehir (TU)
- CAOC 7, Larissa ( GR)
- CAOC 8, in Torrejón ( SP), see above continue
- CAOC 9 in High Wycombe (UK)
- CAOC 10, in Monsanto ( PO)
CAOC in Germany
The two formerly responsible for Germany CAOC CAOC 2 and 4 emerged in the early 1990s from the Interim CAOC, which in turn emerged from the summary functionally separate air attack and air defense command posts. The remit of the CAOC 4 comprised the last southern half of Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it was dissolved in 2008.
The CAOC Uedem Uedem emerged in 2010 from the CAOC 2. It is also responsible for the airspace of Germany, the Benelux countries, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic States. His responsibilities also the NATO Baltic Air Policing drops. As of July 2013, took over responsibility for the area, which was previously guarded by the closing CAOC Finderup (Denmark). This includes the Hohheitsgebiete of Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Iceland.
CAOC the U.S. Armed Forces
CAOC the U.S. Air Force have a more extensive range of tasks. You are greater spatial responsibilities associated with them and to some extent lead space-based forces. The long form of the American designation is CAOC Combined Air and Space Operations Center.
Under the leadership of the United States, the CAOC at Al Udeid Air Base in the Qatar are assigned as laid use command post, the Allied air forces in Afghanistan.