An Overview of the Tanker Airlift Control Center

The Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC) plans, schedules, and tracks tanker, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation aircraft worldwide. This paper presents an overview of the TACC, presenting a snapshot of a constantly evolving, dynamic organization. Based on information gathered via interviews and observations conducted intermittently over a 12-month period, we present key characteristics of the TACC, TACC personnel, the organizational structure, and primary external collaborators

Assessing Readiness for Collaboration in Military C2 Centers

The present research explored the concept of collaborative readiness within a logistics command and control center which was undergoing an organizational change targeting collaborative processes. A series of collaboration-centric items were piloted during an ongoing organizational assessment which was administered to approximately 240 personnel. The results suggested that collaborative readiness could be conceptualized by four overall dimensions: 1) general effectiveness and attitudes, 2) technology adaptability and external collaboration, 3) collaboration enablers, and 4) job characteristics