Rafael Torres, ISAF Joint Command Combined
Joint Operations Center director.
OS1 Laird was assigned to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, from February to October 2007 serving as
Joint Operations Center liaison officer for Joint Task Force (JTF) Paladin.
Sometimes it has a make-believe quality: At a base near Gardez, Afghan officers are giving their own PowerPoint presentations and manning a
joint operations center with banks of computers and even a screen to display the camera feeds from US unmanned aerial vehicles.
Iraq has also set up a
joint operations center -- the Joint Military Operations Coordination Committee, based at Baghdad airport -- which must give its approval before a U.
Meanwhile, lawmakers of Japan's ruling parties working on piracy issues visited the European Union's antipiracy command center at Northwood, Britain's
joint operations center, outside London on Monday.
In late August 2007, several NOLSC HQ unit members supported 2nd Fleet's Exercise Fuerzas Aliadas Panamax 07 as comptrollers and
joint operations center logistics watch officers.
Specifically, although called for in the task force's recommendations, the department has not organizationally merged the two centers or invited key private sector critical infrastructure officials to participate in the planning, monitoring, and other activities of the proposed
joint operations center.
The three-story, 180,000 square foot building will also include a
joint operations center that will house planning functions of SDDC, the Air Force Tanker Airlift Control Center, the Navy's Military Sealift Command, and the TRANSCOM Deployment Distribution Operations Center.
Cell phones and DSN lines don't work here sometimes, so we try to pass on information through our
joint operations center," he said.
At the
joint operations center participants receive an intelligence, force protection, signal, support and current situation briefing to prepare them to enter a virtual combat operation.
CDRE Cleary: The allies that will be participating in Trident Warrior are: the Canadians from their Regional
Joint Operations Center in Halifax, Canada; the 'Brits' in London at Northwood Maritime Fleet Operations Headquarters; NATO at their Maritime Ops Centers in both Northwood and Naples; and America, from the U.
From 2005 to 2006, Tucker managed 27 IT projects in Afghanistan for PM DWTS, including cleaning up cabling and providing raised flooring for a
Joint Operations Center in Kabul; providing an intercom system at the Bagram Tertiary Internment Center; and conducting site surveys to provide NIPRnet, SIPRnet, and CEN-TRIXS (a coalition secret data network) capabilities at a variety of locations.
