ACC Global Operations Center
Air Combat Command’s Global Operations Center is an integrated team of operations, intelligence, and logistics personnel who provide a broad range of U-2 and RC-135 reconnaissance solutions to customers around the world. From mission development and weather prediction to scheduling and logistics, the GOC directly supports theater commanders for global force projection. The GOC also plans and participates in flag and joint exercises, as well as provides battle management services for U.S. Strategic Command. The GOC has DoD’s only 24 hour, worldwide watch solely dedicated to global reconnaissance operations.
The Global Operations Center was created by the commander of Strategic Air Command at Beale
AFB in September 1991. Originally designated as Second Air Force, subsequent reorganizations
brought the GOC under 12th Air Force and then Air Combat Command. The GOC traces its history to
the Strategic Reconnaissance Center, conceived at Offutt AFB in May 1965. SRC was organized
primarily to manage and oversee rapidly growing cold war reconnaissance operations.
Sources and Methods
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/task/acc_goc.htm
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Updated Saturday, June 21, 1997 11:14:49 AM
