Beneath this level of command is the Air Control Centre (ACC), Recognized Air Picture (RAP) Production Centre (RPC) and Sensor Fusion Post (SFP) combined in one entity called ARS.
Oversight of the project is provided by the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) in Brussels, Belgium.
The contract to build the ACCS was based on 1990s specifications and awarded to the Air Command Systems International (ACSI) consortium in November 1999.
The contract provided the development and testing of the ACCS system core software is now completed.
Italy is the first nation using ACCS for limited Military Air Operations since April 2015.