Air Command Systems International was established in the late 1990's in France to serve as the central program office for managing the joint Thales - Raytheon team for designing, developing, testing, integrating, and installing NATO's Air Command and Control System (ACCS), First Limited Operational Capability (LOC1).
This new web site is being established as a mechanism for people to stay in touch as they move in and out of the ACSI organization. More broadly, it is intended as a sort of 'virtual coffee bar' around which anyone can gather who has worked in or with ACSI in Massy, France.
Today, it is being set up as a separate category within Bill Riski's weblog. We'll see where it goes over time.
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