Tanker Airlift Control Center

618th Tanker Airlift Control Center

The United States Air Force's 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC) is an Air Mobility Command unit located at Scott AFB, Illinois. The TACC is the Air Mobility Command hub for planning and directing tanker and transport aircraft operations around the world.

Mission

The 618th TACC is the global air operations center responsible for centralized command and control of Air Force and commercial contract air mobility assets, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It plans, schedules and tracks tanker, airlift and aeromedical evacuation aircraft worldwide to efficiently and effectively accomplish Air Mobility Command's Global Reach mission. The organization is capable of seamlessly transitioning from day-to-day operations to contingency support or disaster relief.

History

When the TACC stood up on 1 April 1992, it brought together a diversity of functions, systems, and people never before assembled in a single organization. With the standup of the Air Mobility Command (AMC) in June 1992, the TACC became the single point of contact for its customers and suppliers in an effort to efficiently and effectively accomplish AMC’s Global Reach mission for the employment of all tanker/airlift missions. Since its reassignment from HQ AMC to Eighteenth Air Force effective 1 October 2003, the TACC has continued to be the hub for planning, scheduling, tasking, and executing America's mobility forces around the world. The TACC consists of 8 directorates with over 900 people, and we are proud of our “Total Force” family. We are a benchmark organization with over 144 Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMA). The entire air mobility team strives for excellence as seen daily in lives impacted and mission successes to build a stronger national defense