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The DASC is responsible for processing immediate air support requests; coordinates aircraft employment with other supporting arms; manages terminal control assets supporting GCE and combat service support element forces; and controls assigned aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and itinerant aircraft transiting through DASC controlled airspace.
Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) is a USDoD term for a subsection of a Theater Air Control System located near a corps headquarters or some other land force headquarters, which directs and oversees close air support and similar sorts of tactical air support. [1] Controls Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) and Forward Air Control (Airborne ...
The GE AN/GPA-73 Radar Course Directing Group [1] (mobile version AN/CPA-73) [2] was an air defense command, control, and coordination system of the United States Air Force.It was developed for the Electronic Systems Division 412L Air Weapons Control System (colloq. "AWCS 412L") [3] for weapons direction (ground-controlled interception, GCI, by "Fire Direction and Control Equipment").
A combat information center (CIC) or action information centre (AIC) is a room in a warship or AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides processed information for command and control of the near battlespace or area of operations. Within other military commands, rooms serving similar functions are known as command centers.
Patch worn by graduates of the CAEWWS HEWTI Course. The United States Navy's Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School, more popularly known as CAEWWS (historically known as TOPDOME), is an American military unit that develops and teaches E-2D and E-2C Hawkeye tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) to selected Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers.
The Royal Canadian Air Force TACP is the principal air liaison and control element aligned with land force manoeuvre units from battlegroup to corps. The primary mission of a TACP is to advise the respective ground commanders on the capabilities and limitations of air power and to assist the ground commander in planning, requesting, coordinating and controlling air effects. [2]
Global Command and Control System (GCCS) is the United States' armed forces DoD joint command and control (C2) system used to provide accurate, complete, and timely information for the operational chain of command for U.S. armed forces. "GCCS" is most often used to refer to the computer system, but actually consists of hardware, software ...
A tactical air navigation system, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system initially designed for naval aircraft to acquire moving landing platforms (i.e., ships) and later expanded for use by other military aircraft. It provides the user with bearing and distance (slant-range or hypotenuse) to a ground or ship-borne ...