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Commander, U.S. Northern Command is concurrently Commander of the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The two are co-located at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [18] General Ralph Eberhart was the first CDRUSNORTHCOM. [19] USNORTHCOM headquarters has approximately 1,200 uniformed and civilian ...
CONR is the NORAD designation of the United States Air Force First Air Force/AFNORTH. Its headquarters is located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The First Air Force (1 AF) became responsible for the USAF air defense mission in September 1990. AFNORTH is the United States Air Force component of United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
The base was the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters from 1987 to 20 December 2019 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex on standby. On 26 July 2021, the installation was renamed Peterson Space Force Base to reflect its ...
On July 28, 2006, the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate [d] was re-designated as the Cheyenne Mountain Division, with the mission to assist in establishing an integrated NORAD and USNORTHCOM Command Center within the headquarters building at Peterson Air Force Base. [6]
Seal of the United States Northern Command This is a list of all commanders, deputy commanders, senior enlisted leaders, and chiefs of staff of the United States Northern Command . Current headquarters staff
At one time, the Air Force Station was the site of NORAD's Air Defense Operations Center. [13] That function, along with other day-to-day NORAD operational missions, moved to the NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters building on Peterson Air Force Base. 21st Space Wing emblem
The unit plans, directs, and assesses air operations for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) as the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR), and the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), as the operations hub for First Air Force. It provides aerospace warning and control for NORAD Defensive Counter Air (DCA) activities.
Data into the NMCC includes the warning "on the size, origin, and targeting of an attack" (e.g., from the NORAD/NORTHCOM Command Center). The NMCC's Crisis Management Automated Data Processing Systems are under the control of the J-3 Command Systems Operations Division. [citation needed]