The Changi RHCC is housed at the Changi Command and Control Centre (CC2C), Singapore, and leverages on ready facilities available at the CC2C for large-scale multinational operations and exercises. The RHCC will:

Focus on supporting a disaster affected state's military in coordinating assistance provided by foreign militaries.

Support and complement other existing mechanisms such as the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre) and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which focus on supporting a disaster affected state's national disaster management authorities in coordinating the overall relief effort.

How the RHCC would conduct its operations

Prior to predictable events such as a typhoon, the Changi RHCC will:

Fuse information from regional disaster and early warning centres;

Distribute the situation picture to the partner militaries through its OPERA Command and Control Information System (CCIS) web-portal.

This will allow partner militaries to prepare their response mechanisms.

If the affected state agrees, the RHCC will also concurrently conduct initial planning and scale up for a possible multinational military HADR operation.

If the natural event develops into a natural disaster:

The Changi RHCC will continue to broadcast the updated situation picture, including contributions of international aid, to partner militaries to facilitate decision-making, and minimise duplication and gaps in the provision of foreign military assistance.

This can be done via the OPERA CCIS web-portal as well as the RHCC's network of international liaison officers and linkages with operations centres of regional militaries.

The Changi RHCC will also coordinate and facilitate the deployment of foreign military assistance into theatre.

If required, the RHCC can forward deploy a mobile coordination unit to support the affected state's military in coordination efforts on the ground.

Once the disaster relief efforts reach a steady state and the affected state's military is able to coordinate the foreign military assistance provided without external support, the Changi RHCC will draw down its operations.