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For more than 30 years, the crews operating the missile warning center advanced warning of incoming ballistic missiles. … the missile operations section, which supports the missile warning center. … once we had our first couple of Scud detections and interceptions under our belt, we felt a lot more
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undergoing a $ 450 million upgrade program as part of Cheyenne Mountain's $ 1.7 billion renovation package." At Cheyenne Mountain on September 11, 2001, Major Richard J. Hughes was the Missile Warning Center Commander and the Chief of the J7 Exercise Branch. In 2003, construction began for a new
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The Space and Missile Warning System Operations Working Group, for example, reported to the larger group that significant differences existed between the number of personnel required in those specialities and the number currently available. … between 1 July and October SAC would acquire space
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home to the only Department of Defense lab that's underground … $ 1.8 billion underground complex with 1,100 personnel … the only Priority Level 1 Combined Joint Air Force Operational Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Facility in the
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The Missile Warning Center coordinates, plans, and executes worldwide missile, nuclear detonation, and space re-entry event detection to provide timely, accurate, and unambiguous strategic warning in support of the United States and Canada.
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operates Joint Tactical Ground Stations providing early warning of missile launches worldwide to deployed U.S. forces. The five JTAGS systems are operated by joint Army/Navy crews and are a part of U.S. Strategic Command's
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computers which can also serve as backup processors for the 496L system and the Automatic Digital Relay Switch, if necessary. … The NCS segment will replace the 425L Command and Control system including the
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The centers are the Air Warning Center, Missile Correlation Center, Domestic Warning Center, Space Control Center, Operational Intelligence Watch, Systems Center, Weather Center, and the Command Center.
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the only missile warning sensor number and types of missiles in a raid, and the earliest and next impact times for locations in the continental U.S. …to the MCC … JSpOC at Cheyenne Mountain …
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to replace the 425L System.) After SAC assumed control of ballistic missile warning and space surveillance facilities on December 1, 1979, the MWC was in the same room as HQ NORAD/ADCOM J31's
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real-time receipt, processing, display and output of missile warning data, nuclear detonation reporting, atmospheric surveillance and warning, and weapons and sensor system status
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and STRATCOM's facility in Cheyenne Mountain ("Missile Warning Operations Center" in 2007.) USSTRATCOM announced a 2007 plan to relocate the MWOC from Cheyenne Mountain to
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were in Cheyenne Mountain by March 4, 2005 when Patrick Mullin was the commander of the MCC, which by 2006 was receiving input from five Joint Tactical Ground Stations.
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program was assigned the satellite intercept mission, the Secretary of Defense directed the Air Force to achieve a similar capability from their installation on
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The $ 2.9 million project, funded by USSTRATCOM, began in January 2010 and was completed June 30, 2011. A ribbon cutting for the new MWC was held Aug. 5.
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computers currently used for Communications Multiplexors and Inter-computer Processors for the HIS 6050s could be used to perform the 6050 functions
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ADC to NORAD, "(U) NORAD Space Defense Center Implementation Plan," 15 Dec 1964 (cited by NORAD Historical Summary, 1966 January–July)
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presently used in the Command Center Processing system will be used for a Mission Essential Back-up Capability (MEBU) … The
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By 1981 Cheyenne Mountain was providing 6,700 messages per hour compiled via sensor inputs from the
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The 425L system portion of the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NCMC) became fully operational.
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Full Costs and Security Implications of Cheyenne Mountain Realignment Have Not Been Determined
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Declassified US Government Internal Documents on Military Research and Arming of the Heavens
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156 was issued on November 7, 1957 (BMEWS was "designed to go with the active portion of
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Failures of the North American Aerospace Defense Command's (NORAD) attack warning system
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for the United States, the Soviet Union announced that they had successfully tested an
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USAF memo to Air Defense Command cited in 1958 NORAD/CONAD Historical Summary, Jan–Jun
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http://www.wright.edu/academics/prog/rotc/includes/biographies/Lt%20Col%20Hughes.pdf
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computer and provides all Commanders-In- Chief with simultaneous situation displays.
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Searching the Skies: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program
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Jane's Radar and Electronic Systems, 6th edition, Bernard Blake, ed. (1994), p. 31
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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
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ended and in early 1972, the 427M improvement program was planned; e.g., (
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computers to process intelligence data for the Commander-In-Chief, NORAD.
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History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II: 1956–1972
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the alternate missile warning center at the Offutt AFB nuclear bunker
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began in July 1970 (IOC was 5 May 1972), and in 1972 20% of the
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Raymond, Jay (Colonel, 21st SW Commander) (December 13, 2007).
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at Norad is the establishment of a Systems Integration Office
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detections and interceptions for theater warning units. The
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Burroughs 425L Command/Control and Missile Warning System
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to detect ICBM launches with infrared sensors in space.
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became operational. Site J's computers (e.g., in the
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Orban, SSgt. Brian (February 1995). "The trip wire".
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North American Air Defense Command Historical Summary
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Modernization of the WWMCCS Information System (WIS)
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of the new bunker's command center—a portion of the
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Center became operational at Ent AFB" with the 496L
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Index

the alternate missile warning center at the Offutt AFB nuclear bunker


Combined Force Space Component Command
Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
United States Space Command
Combined Force Space Component Command
Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
computerized air defense network
ICBM
BMEWS
General Operational Requirement
the WIZARD system
Air Defense Command
the President
Zone of the Interior
Air Defense Command
Nike Zeus
SAMs
Missile Defense Alarm System
BMEWS Central Computer and Display Facility
Ent AFB
BMEWS
Thule Site J
Sylvania AN/FSQ-28 Missile Impact Predictor Set
RCA AN/FPS-50 Radar Sets
BMEWS Rearward Communications System
NORAD
RCA Display Information Processors
SAC's Offutt AFB nuclear bunker

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