National Military Command Center
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The National Military Command Center (NMCC)
Mission
The NMCC has three main missions, all serving the
- The primary task of the NMCC is to monitor worldwide events which may be of defense significance.
- The NMCC also has a crisis response component (e.g., response to the USS Liberty,[5]
- And a strategic watch component (e.g., monitoring ballistic missile launches and other nuclear activity).
When directed by the NCA, the NMCC is responsible for generating
Organization
The NMCC is operated by five teams on a rotating
- Leadership (one DDO and one assistant deputy director for operations (ADDO))
- Current Operations Section (two senior operations officers (SOO) and one current operations officer (COO))
- Emergency Action Element (three senior emergency actions officers, EAO, EA NCO)
- Surveillance (one Officer)
- Supporting Sections (approximately 8–10 individuals)
The more than 300 people in the NMCC have responsibilities that are operational in nature. The NMCC is not funded through the
The Joint Staff
manages the operations of the information system facilities and maintains operational control of the Crisis Management Automated Data Processing System for the National Military Command Center.List of deputy directors
Branch | Portrait | Name | Serving since | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
U.S. Army |
Brigadier General Mark J. Hovatter (Team Four) |
July 2022 | [9] | |
U.S. Marine Corps |
Brigadier General Kevin G. Collins (Team Three) |
May 2023 | [10] | |
U.S. Navy |
Rear Admiral (lower half) Frank A. Rhodes IV (Team Two) |
7 February 2024 | [11] | |
U.S. Air Force |
Brigadier General Jason E. Bailey (Team Five) |
April 2023 | [12] | |
U.S. Space Force |
Brigadier General Jacob Middleton Jr. (Team One) |
July 2023 | [13] |
Description
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The NMCC includes several war rooms, uses more than 300 operational personnel, and houses the United States side of the 1963
History
1950 Air Force Command Post
The Air Force Command Post (AFCP) was "hastily set up" on June 25, 1950, to replace the 1948 war room when the
Moved to a "more permanent" Pentagon facility in early 1951, the 2nd AFCP location had "a communications center [and] war room, which prepared status displays" (an "Emergency
1953 JCS Pentagon annex
At the Pentagon, an annex was established c. 1952–53 by the
- 1956 Raven Rock annex
- In July 1956 in the Pennsylvania bunker, a joint "War Room Annex was established" and was operated by the Air Force.[16] In 1955 the National Security Council designated the AFCP as the "national air defense warning center",[17] and Raven Rock's scope "was broadened in April 1957 [for] activation prior to emergency if JCS thought it necessary."[16]
In 1957
1960 Joint War Room
The Joint War Room (JWR) consoles became operational in November 1960 and on December 21,
1961 NCC Task Force
"The National Command and Control Task Force, headed by General Partridge, submitted its findings on 14 November 1961" (Partridge Report), which recommended "the Joint War Room become the National Military Command Center (NMCC)"—it was "to become the nerve center of a
1962 NMCC
The NMCC was begun in early 1962
1972 upgrade
The WWMCCS "ADP upgrade program" included 1972 computer installations (e.g., 2
In popular culture
- The 1964 films Dr. Strangelove and Fail Safe both depict the Pentagon war room.
- In The Sum of All Fears (2002), Jack Ryan (played by Ben Affleck) goes to the NMCC and convinces the DDO to get him on the US-Russian hotline, trying to stop an all-out nuclear confrontation between the two nuclear powers.
- The 2007 Transformers film has a scene set in an imaginative representation of the National Military Command Center.
- The Call of Duty: Black Ops zombies map "Five" begins in the war room of the Pentagon, appearing almost identical to the real-life counterpart.
See also
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- Gold Codes
- Nuclear football
- Raven Rock Mountain Complex
- Continuity of government
- Operation Looking Glass
- National Airborne Operations Center
- White House Situation Room
- National Defense Management Center (Russian equivalent)
References
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- ^ "'The Pentagon Goes to War': National Military Command Center".
- ^ "Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst".
- ^ "National Military Command Center Documents- NSA/CSS". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
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- ^ "Executive Agent". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
- ^ "Brigadier General Mark J. Hovatter - General Officer Management Office".
- ^ https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/september/marine-corps-general-officers-and-senior-enlisted-leaders
- ^ https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Career/Detailing/Flag/March%202024%20Roster%20Public.pdf?ver=_RcWhZB_Ln3fuLVZ5g4hjQ%3d%3d
- ^ "Jason E. Bailey".
- ^ "JACOB "dB" MIDDLETON".
- ^ a b c d e f g h Wainstein, L. (June 1975). The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning: Part One (1945-1953) (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses. pp. 1–138.
- ^ ISBN 0-912799-60-9. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Sturm, Thomas A. (August 1966) [declassified "6/05/05"]. The Air Force and The Worldwide Military Command and Control System: 1961–1965 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 2014-05-15.
By 1959, the services as well as JCS regarded Raven Rock as their primary emergency deployment center. For the Air Force, it served as Headquarters USAF Advanced, capable of receiving the Chief of Staff and key officers. … on 1 October 1962…the underground facility…formerly designated the Alternate Joint Communications Center (AJCC), was renamed the Altername National Military Command Center (ANMCC). The term AJCC remained in use but now applied only to the Army-managed communications complex at the ANMCC site.8
(quotation from p. 18) - ^ Sturm, Thomas A. (August 1966). The Air Force and the Worldwide Military Command and Control System, 1961–1965 (Report). Historical Division Liaison Office, US Air Force. pp. 70–71. (cited by Wainstein p. 119 footnote 14)
- Richards-Gebaur AFB. This feature permitted the ALCOP to continue operations of the network and carry on with the alert procedures should NORAD become a war casualty."
- ^ a b Moriarty, J. K. (June 1975). The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning: Part Two (1954-1960) (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses. pp. 139–266.
- ^ Sturm, Thomas A. (Summer 1969). Emergence of the Air Force Command and Control System. Aerospace Commentary (Report). Vol. 1. p. 42. (cited by Wainstein p. 119)
- ^ Irvin, William D (November 1961). "Defense Communications Agency, A Progress Report". Signal: 8. (Cited by Chapter 2)
- ^ Chapter 2: Defense Communications Agency and System (Report). Figure 11.
- ^ a b Chapter 2: Defense Communications Agency and System p. 19[full citation needed]
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- ^ a b c d Ponturo, J. (June 1975). The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning: Part Three (1961-1967) (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses. pp. 267–370.
In February [1962], the Secretary of Defense approved a National Military Command System (NMCS) composed of four major elements: the National Military Command Center (NMCC), an evolution of the JCS Joint War Room; the Alternate National Military Command Center (ANMCC), a redesignation of the JCS installation at the AJCC; and two mobile alternates, the NECPA and the NEACP.18 The following October he issued a DoD directive on the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) that outlined the NMCS in detail, to include the NMCC, ANMCC, NECPA, NEACP, and such other alternates as might be established, together with their interconnecting communications; and defined their relationship to the command and control "subsystems" of the service headquarters, the CINCs, and other DoD agencies.19 … The fixed underground ANMCC would be phased out as superfluous, whichever version [50-man or 300-man DUCC] was chosen, and the other NMCS facilities would be cut back to some degree according to one or the other.
- ISBN 9781400078912. Retrieved 2015-02-11.
- ^ Wainstein, L.-Project Leader (June 1975). The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning, 1945-1972: Executive Summary (Report). Vol. Study S-467. Institute for Defense Analyses. pp. xi–xxviii.
- ISBN 9781588367013. Retrieved 2015-02-11.
- ISBN 9781101191316. Retrieved 2015-02-11.
- ^ PARCS) as well as SEWS and PAVE PAWS data by way of NORAD. In 1977, HQ USAF approved the acquisition of UNIVAC 1100/42s to replace the original UNIVAC 1106s at the four CCPDS sites as a means of satisfying the increased processing requirements generated by additional and improved warning systems. (pdf p. 64)