Question: What is the role of the presently operating AOC 's NAF , that was activated as 9th Air Force on 8 April 1942 ?

text: Air Operations Center
List of Air Operations Centers
The table below lists the Air Operations Centers currently in service in the US Air Force , the Named or Numbered Air Force ( NAF ) and Major Command ( MAJCOM ) to which they are assigned , Unified Combatant Command they support , and where they are stationed .
An Air Operations Center (AOC) is a type of command center used by the United States Air Force (USAF). It is the senior agency of the Air Force component commander to provide command and control of air operations. The United States Air Force employs two kinds of AOCs: regional AOCs utilizing the AN/USQ-163 Falconer weapon system that support geographic combatant commanders, and functional AOCs that support functional combatant commanders. When there is more than one U.S. military service working in an AOC, such as when naval aviation from the U.S. Navy (USN) and/or the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is incorporated, it is called a Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC). In cases of allied or coalition (multinational) operations in tandem with USAF or Joint air and space operations, the AOC is called a Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC). An AOC is the senior element of the Theater Air Control System (TACS). The Joint Force Commander (JFC) assigns a Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) to lead the AOC weapon system. If allied or coalition forces are part of the operation, the JFC and JFACC will be redesignated as the CFC and CFACC, respectively. Quite often the Commander, Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR) is assigned the JFACC/CFACC position for planning and executing theater-wide air and space forces. If another service also provides a significant share of air and space forces, the Deputy JFACC/CFACC will typically be a senior flag officer from that service. For example, during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, when USAF combat air forces (CAF) and mobility air forces (MAF) integrated extensive USN and USMC sea-based and land-based aviation and Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy / Fleet Air Arm aviation, the CFACC was an aeronautically rated USAF lieutenant general, assisted by an aeronautically designated USN rear admiral (upper half) as the Deputy CFACC, and an aeronautically rated RAF air commodore as the Senior British Officer (Air).
AOC NAF MAJCOM UCC Role Station
601st Air Operations Center 1 AF/AFNORTH ACC USNORTHCOM Regional Tyndall AFB , Florida
603d Air Operations Center 3 AF/AFEUR USAFE USEUCOM / USAFRICOM Regional Ramstein AB , Germany
607th Air Operations Center ( HTACC / KAOC ) 7 AF/AFKOR PACAF USPACOM Regional Osan AB , South Korea
608th Air Operations Center 8 AF/AFSTRAT-GS AFGSC USSTRATCOM Functional Barksdale AFB , Louisiana
609th Air Operations Center ( CAOC ) USAFCENT ACC USCENTCOM Regional Al Udeid Air Base , Qatar ; 609 AOC Det 1 , Shaw AFB , South Carolina
611th Air Operations Center 11 AF PACAF USPACOM / USNORTHCOM Regional Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson , Alaska
612th Air Operations Center 12 AF/AFSOUTH ACC USSOUTHCOM Regional Davis-Monthan AFB , Arizona
613th Air Operations Center 13 AF/AFPAC PACAF USPACOM Regional Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam , Hawaii
618th Air Operations Center 18 AF/AFTRANS AMC USTRANSCOM Functional Scott AFB , Illinois
623d Air Operations Center 23 AF/AFSOF AFSOC USSOCOM Functional Hurlburt Field , Florida
624th Operations Center 24 AF/AFCYBER AFSPC USCYBERCOM Functional Lackland AFB , Texas
625th Operations Center 25 AF ACC USCYBERCOM ( NSA ) Functional Lackland AFB , Texas