Although familiarly called "Op-Center", the actual name of the largely autonomous agency is the "
National Crisis Management Center". The charter of the NCMC, or Op-Center, is unlike any other in the history of the
United States. They handle both domestic and international crises. Director Paul Hood reports to the
President, and what had started as "an information clearinghouse with
SWAT capabilities" now has the singular capacity to monitor, initiate, and manage operations worldwide. The organization had its own paramilitary response team, called the Striker team, named by an Op-Center member who was a soccer fan, composed of members of the U.S. military special operations community. The series also mentioned organizations from England, whose response team was called Bengal, and Russia, with a team called Hammer. It is
headquartered in an undistinguished, two-story building located near the
Naval Reserve flight line at
Andrews Air Force Base that used to be a ready room, a staging area for crack flight crews. In the event of a nuclear attack, it would have been their job to evacuate key officials from
Washington, D.C. According to the 2014 reboot franchise, the NCMC was eventually disbanded after the
Secretary of Defense and the
Director of National Intelligence managed to convince the President of the United States to shut the organization down due to the effectiveness of the US Intelligence Community and Special Forces in the War on Terror (much to the disgust of Paul Hood and Mike Rogers). Years later however, terrorists blow up several NFL stadiums across the country and leave thousands dead or mutilated. It is determined in the resulting investigation that the inability of government agencies to prevent the attacks was due to a lack of information, as well as the inability to put the pieces together in time. In response, the President executes an emergency order that reboots Op-Center for the 21st Century. Retired Admiral Chase Williams is eventually named the new director and Op-Center's new headquarters is located in the basement of the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; as its response team, Op-Center utilizes soldiers from the
Joint Special Operations Command for overseas missions and a SWAT team from the
FBI's
Critical Incident Response Group in order to respond to domestic emergencies. ==Net Force==