NATO NORTHERN EUROPEAN COMMAND COMMAND CONTROL AND INFORMATION SYSTEM NEC CCIS

Harald Dahle

The Northern European Command, Command and Control Information System (NEC CCIS) is a non-realtime NATO Air Command and Control (C2) system ope-rated by NATO, Estonia, Iceland, Lithuania and Norway. The system supports all aspects of air operations from operational level  to tactical level. System Mainte-nance, Development and Support is provided by NEC CCIS System Support Centre (SSC) Kolsaas, Norway.Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH) was the northern Major Subordinate Command, NATO’s Allied Command Europe, located at Kolsås outside Oslo. In the case of war with the Soviet Union, AFNORTH would assume supreme command of all Allied forces in northern Europe, Norway and Denmark, and Germany north of Elbe Hamburg and adjacent sea territory. HQ AFNORTH Kolsås closed on the morning of 30 June 1994. The HQ that replaced it, HQ Allied Forces Northwestern Europe located at RAF High Wycombe in the United Kingdom, was activated in the afternoon of 30 June 1994. 

 The last day in 1994 at Kolsås with the entire NEC CCIS staff

 The NEC CCIS Kolsås bunker command center

RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England. It houses Headquarters Air Command, and was originally designed to house RAF Bomber Command in the late 1930s. The station is also the headquarters of the European Air Group.