The
Operations Room (also known as the
Combat Information Center, or, under the British system, the
Action Information Centre) is the tactical center of a
warship or
AWAC aircraft providing processed information for
command and control of the near
battlespace or 'area of operations'. Within other
military commands, rooms serving similar functions are called by the similar "Command Information Center" or simply "
Command center"; the number of different terms for spaces that serve much the same function may explain why the plain and generally non-descriptive "Operations Center" is a prevalent term.