What is the purpose of TFN's AWB7 NOC, apart from allowing him (and Admiral Two-Dads' replacement) to show-off some glitzy plazma screens with pretty icons to visiting dignatories and parliamentarians?
NOC-operator positions have been advertised as ASA4 clerical staff; is this simply a glorified typing pool?
It would seem that the NOC has become an iconic facility, built to honour TFN himself and the departed Admiral Two-Dads. It had to be built, come hell or high water, regardless of the cost to industry, and irrespecive of whether there was an operational need for it or not. It had to be built before Big Tony could say
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