Our MIssion

The 609th Air Operations Center delivers continuous, resilient, and decisive air, space, and cyber power across U.S. Central Command's 20-nation area of responsibility in order to bolster regional security, deter adversaries, and when deterrence fails, defeat the enemy.

609th AOC Photos

A U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to the 609th Air Operations Center performs tasks within the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, April 20, 2020.
A photo of an empty COD floor
Master Sgt. Kyle Tschida, a Joint Interface Control cell watch officer with the 609th Air Operations Center, right, and Lt. Col. Terry Brennan, deputy U.S. Air Forces Central Command JIC officer, review datalink software changes July 21, 2017, at the Combined Air Operations Center on Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Brennan led a team that re-engineered theater data link architecture and provided reliable connectivity and responsive data link message traffic for the warfighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander Riedel)

What We Do

The men and women of the 609th AOC work alongside coalition partners from 18 nations to plan, produce, and execute the daily Air Tasking Order (ATO) on behalf of the Combined Forces Air Component Commander (CFACC).  This great Coalition presence is what makes the AOC a Combined AOC -- a CAOC.  

How We Are Organized

The CAOC consists of five divisions and three squadrons: Strategy Division (SRD); Combat Plans Division (CPD); Combat Operations Division (COD); Air Mobility Division (AMD); Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division (ISRD); 609th Air Support Squadron (ASUS);  609th Air Communications Squadron (ACOMS); and 609th Expeditionary Air Communications Squadron (EACOMS).  The CAOC organization is geographically split between facilities at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.