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ACCS is the NATO Air Command and Control System programme, which will replace the existing air command and control systems in Europe. At the highest level it comprises the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) from which the air battle is run. Beneath this level of command is the Air Control Centre (ACC), Recognised Air Picture (RAP) Production Centre (RPC) and Sensor Fusion Post (SFP), which are combinedly operated in one entity called ARS. The ARS is the equivalent to the existing Control and Reporting Centers (CRCs). The programme comprises both static and deployable elements. Under separate funding, NATO will also procure deployable sensors for the deployable ACCS component (DAC).

Oversight of the programme is provided by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) in Brussels, Belgium (until 2012 executed by the NATO ACCS Management Organisation (NACMA) Board of Directors, senior representatives of the Nations engaged in the NATO ACCS programme. The Board is responsible to the Secretary General of NATO for the delivery of the programme. The NCIA AIRC2 PO&S is responsible for the day-to-day management of the programme with scientific support from former [NC3A]] (now part of the NCIA), system and software engineering support from former [NATO Programming Centre|NPC]] (today as Systems Support Center (SSC) as well part of the NCIA), logistic support from former NAMSA (as well part of the NCIA) and operational support from SHAPE. The contract to build ACCS was awarded to the Air Command Systems International (ACSI) consortium in November 1999. Since 2000 ACSI is part of ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS).

NATO’s Air Command and Control System (ACCS) is entering the final stretch of software testing and validation, with national-level replication sites beginning to roll out across the alliance. It is under validation in Belgium, Germany, France and Italy and expected to be replicated starting 2014. Mobile version has been tested by NATO and is deployed to Italy.

Although some data-exchange interoperability problems continue to beleaguer the system, ACCS is now scheduled to reach an Early operational Capability begin 2015, according to SHAPE and NCIA agreement.

NATO ACCS provides the software platform for NATO TMD project. "NATO principal procurement agency is preparing to award approximately EUR750 million (USD1 billion) in missile defence and air C2 integration and modernisation contracts during the next two years, with the first contracts to be handed out in mid-to-late 2014." (Quoted from Jane's Defence Weekly , 03 Oct 2013)



The Integrated System Support of the ACCS system when fielded will be provided by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) supported by in house System Support Center (SSC) , formerly known as NPC.

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