National Operations Center

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National Operations Center

• Rick McDow
• Chief, CAP-NOC

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Standard Mission Requests

• Written customers requests required
• Email preferred, fax or letter OK
• Must include identifiable dates, locations and
  objectives
• May be in future if data complete
• Mission numbers are transmitted on a standardized
  Excel spreadsheet or on-line

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Air Force Mission Status

• Only available to requests from federal agencies
  or military
• The mission must be one that the AF could do for
  itself
• Some historical missions are no longer approved
• AFAM status is no longer automatic for any
  mission regardless of that missions inclusion in
  an MOU/MOA

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Air Force Missions cont.

• NOC does not approve
• NOC coordinates customer request and relays CAP
  unit info
• If AF required procedures are not followed or AF
  required information is not furnished, then
  CAP-USAF will not approve..they are not allowed.

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Corporate Missions

• Same request procedures and requirements
• FECA/FTCA coverage not available

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Non CAP people in CAP Aircraft

• AF approves for AFAM
• Corporate missions
• Approved by CAP/DO
• nonCAP crew vs. passengers
• Crew perform a function
• Passengers relate to the FARs
• Orientations

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Transportation missions

• Legal but several considerations
• FAA rules..not CAP or USAF
• Customer can not pay
• Commercial pilot preferred
• Private pilot, yes but no compensation
• Can not count flight time
• No money reimbursement except for Search and
  Locate missions

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Counterdrug missions

• Requests by federal drug law enforcement agencies
  
• Request sortie plan are both required before a
  mission number can be issued
• Longer duration/complex missions may require an
  Operations Plan
• Requests below federal level require validation
  by a federal drug law enforcement agent
• Marij. ERAD missions (DEA DCE/SP coordinators)
• All others require an independent LEA

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WMIRS

• Is available and should be used for all missions
• AFRCC
• AFNSEP
• SDIS
• Incident Commander and alerting officers should
  be WMIRS literate

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NOC reports to 1AF

• Classified
• Rare but required for NOC
• Most is Unclass/FOUO
• Must maintain communications with AF (primarily
  1AF)
• STU III
• SPIRNET (also NIPRNET, known as milnet)
• Unclassified
• Normal mil/gov msg traffic
• Content is still the property of the agency being
  supported
• Mission (ATO) reports required twice a week

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Automation

• Goal, access mission request reports via WWW
• Coming soon to a computer near you

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NOC Contact Information

• Toll Free [phone]
• Voice [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail opscenter_at_cap.gov
• Rick McDow, Deputy Director, NOC
• Voice [phone] E-mail rmcdow_at_cap.gov
• Joe Curry, Asst. Chief, NOC
• Voice [phone] E-mail jcurry_at_cap.gov
• Sandie Gaines, NOC Mission Coordinator
• Voice [phone] E-mail sgaines_at_cap.gov