A few months later, on 1 January 1999, the agency added responsibilities including unmanned aerial vehicles, and became the Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center.

The Center eventually gained the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab, and fifteen operating locations intended to network the command and control mission.

[4] In January 2013, the Commander of ACC announced his intention to reorganize the headquarters staff to formulate a consolidated planning, programming and requirements directorate.

Leading the AOC effort through large-scale experiments, for seven years the Center modernized, standardized, and integrated the developing command and control system.

The equipment tested included command, control and communications systems, vehicles, aircraft, software, radios, etc., focused on enhancing information collection and exchange, and improving interoperability.

More recently, it was supposed to be downsized to focus on specific areas for improvement in Command and control integration and conducted on a smaller scale on a quarterly basis with occasional large-scale events.