What does ACO stand for?

Army aviation and Army missile fires in the air tasking order and airspace control order, and coordinates intra-theater airlifts.

Requesting or changing a formal airspace coordination measure (ACM) outside of the normal airspace control order (ACO) cycle is time-consuming and unresponsive, taking up to 20 minutes to process a single request.

43) The JFACC exercises his operational and tactical command and control through a JAOC which transmits his strategy, operational constraints and tactical procedures by the Air Tasking Order (ATO), Airspace Control Order (ACO) and SPINS.

Integrating the ATO, the airspace control order (ACO), fire support coordinating measures (FSCM), airspace control measures (ACM), air defense planning, the civil aviation structure, clearance of fires, the ground common operating picture (COP) and the air COP all can come into play.

This interface will overcome many of the limitations imposed by the USMTF [US message text format] currently used to communicate with TBMCS and will allow greater visibility of air tasking order [ATO] and airspace control order [ACO] data.

The ROZ was added to the airspace control order (ACO) from the Coalition Joint Task Force-7 (CJTF-7), so all fixed-wing and helicopter pilots in the Iraqi theater could look at the ACO and avoid the ROZ and any danger of being shot down by friendly indirect fire.

Army and Marine aircraft and other land component airspace users operated with joint-assigned call signs, identification friend or foe (IFF) codes and airspace documented on the airspace control order (ACO); Army tactical missile systems (ATACMS) were tracked and coordinated for airspace; counterfire radars were tracked and their frequencies were coordinated; the fire support coordination line (FSCL) movement was coordinated between air and land components before implementation; there was innovative use of kill boxes to coordinate component battle-space; and land unit movements were tracked with blue force tracker (BFT).

The JTRGS is disseminated to each component and its command and control and attack assets as a portion of the airspace control order (ACO) or in the special instructions (SPINS) portions of the air tasking order (ATO).