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With the right knowledge at the right place at the right time, an effects based approach to the employment of airpower can truly be implemented. Sensor fusion, increased bandwidth, reach-back capability, and a common operating picture, have allowed the Combined Joint Force Air Component Commander (CJFACC) and the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) to be more connected with more real time information than ever. Emerging today are concepts for managing not only information, but its interrelated meaning in methods to fuel action. Knowledge Management concepts seek to act on information by creating knowledge where it can and interconnecting those who possess knowledge where it can not. Knowledge Based Operations (KBO) is the procedures, tools and organization used to implement Knowledge Management concepts. What are the implications of these concepts on the processes of a CAOC?