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120 relations: Active electronically scanned array, Aerospace Defense Command, Air Force Space Command, Air Force Space Surveillance System, Air Force Systems Command, AN/FPQ-16 PARCS, AN/FPS-17, AN/FPS-35, Antenna gain, Avco, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, Beale Air Force Base, Bendix Corporation, Bourne, Massachusetts, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Air Force Station, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Circular polarization, Clear Air Force Station, Cobra Dane, Cold War, Cold War (1985–1991), Contiguous United States, Cuban Missile Crisis, DEFCON, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Support Program, Delta (rocket family), Delta-class submarine, Dipole antenna, Dunay radar, Early-warning radar, Eglin AFB Site C-6, Eglin Air Force Base, Eldorado Air Force Station, Electronic Systems Center, Environmental impact statement, Ewing family of tumors, Ewing's sarcoma, Falling Leaves (radar network), Federal Aviation Administration, Federation of American Scientists, Fourteenth Air Force, General Electric, Georges Bank, Ground Equipment Facility QRC, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, Hans Mark, ..., Hanscom Air Force Base, Initial operating capability, Intercontinental ballistic missile, John C. Stetson, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kamchatka Peninsula, LGM-30 Minuteman, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego, Manassas Air Force Station, Missile Defense Alarm System, Moorestown, New Jersey, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, National Military Command Center, Nautical mile, North Truro Air Force Station, Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS, Nuclear warfare, Passive electronically scanned array, PAVE, Permanent System radar stations, Permissible exposure limit, PGM-17 Thor, Phase (waves), Phase shift module, Phased array, Preemptive war, Project Space Track, Qatar, R-29 Vysota, RAF Fylingdales, Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Raytheon, Request for information, Request for proposal, Robins Air Force Base, Rome Laboratory, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Safeguard Program, SAGE radar stations, Solid State Phased Array Radar System, Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Strategic Air Command, Submarine-launched ballistic missile, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Tai'an, Miaoli, Taiwan, Texas Tower 2, Thule Air Base, Thule Site J, Titan (rocket family), To be announced, UGM-27 Polaris, Ultra high frequency, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of the Air Force, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Government Publishing Office, United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of the Air Force, United States Space Surveillance Network, Voronezh radar, Wave interference, Wayland, Massachusetts, Worldwide Military Command and Control System, 6th Space Warning Squadron, 7th Space Warning Squadron, 8th Space Warning Squadron, 9th Space Warning Squadron. Expand index (70 more) »
Active electronically scanned array
An active electronically scanned array (AESA), is a type of phased array antenna, that is a computer-controlled array antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antenna.
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Aerospace Defense Command
Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Forces, responsible for continental air defence.
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Air Force Space Command
Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), sometimes referred to informally as U.S. Space Command, is a major command of the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
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Air Force Space Surveillance System
The AN/FPS-133 Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, was a U.S. government multistatic radar system built to detect orbital objects passing over America.
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Air Force Systems Command
The Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) is an inactive United States Air Force Major Command.
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AN/FPQ-16 PARCS
The AN/FPQ-16 Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS or EPARCS) is a powerful phased-array radar system located in North Dakota.
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AN/FPS-17
The AN/FPS-17 was a ground-based fixed-beam radar system that was installed at three locations worldwide, including Pirinçlik Air Base (formerly Diyarbakir Air Station) in south-eastern Turkey, Laredo, Texas and Shemya Island, Alaska.
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AN/FPS-35
The AN/FPS-35 radar was a long range radar used in the early 1960s.
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Antenna gain
In electromagnetics, an antenna's power gain or simply gain is a key performance number which combines the antenna's directivity and electrical efficiency.
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Avco
Avco Corporation is a subsidiary of Textron which operates Textron Systems Corporation and Lycoming.
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Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
The RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, "474L System", Project 474L) was a United States Air Force Cold War early warning radar, computer, and communications system, for ballistic missile detection.
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Beale Air Force Base
Beale Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately east of Marysville, California.
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Bendix Corporation
The Bendix Corporation was an American manufacturing and engineering company which during various times in its 60-year existence (1924–1983) made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft brakes, aeronautical hydraulics and electric power systems, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers.
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Bourne, Massachusetts
Bourne is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical academic journal, published by Taylor and Francis that covers global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear threats, weapons of mass destruction, climate change, and emerging technologies and biological hazards.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) (known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station from 1963 to 1973) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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Cape Cod Air Force Station
Cape Cod Air Force Station is a U.S. Air Force station located in the northwest corner of Joint Base Cape Cod, United States, on Flatrock Hill in Massachusetts.
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a military installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to Colorado Springs, at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, which hosts the activities of several tenant units.
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Circular polarization
In electrodynamics, circular polarization of an electromagnetic wave is a polarization state in which, at each point, the electric field of the wave has a constant magnitude but its direction rotates with time at a steady rate in a plane perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
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Clear Air Force Station
Clear Air Force Station ("Clear" colloq.) is a United States Air Force Station radar station for detecting incoming ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles to NORAD's command center and to provide Space Surveillance data to Air Force Space Command's Space Control Center (SCC).
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Cobra Dane
The AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar is a passive electronically scanned array installation operated by Raytheon for the United States Air Force at Eareckson Air Station on the island of Shemya, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Cold War (1985–1991)
The Cold War period of 1985–1991 began with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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DEFCON
The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces.
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Defense Intelligence Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an external intelligence service of the United States federal government specializing in defense and military intelligence.
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Defense Support Program
Supply support for what was known as the 1st Communications Squadron at Buckley Air National Guard Base in early 1970 was provided by Operating Location AB of the 4600/Supply Squadron and 2 personnel from Space Command.
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Delta (rocket family)
Delta is an American versatile family of expendable launch systems that has provided space launch capability in the United States since 1960.
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Delta-class submarine
The Delta class (Project 667B Murena, Project 667BD Murena-M, Project 667BDR Kalmar, Project 667BDRM Delfin) are a common name of four types of submarines which formed the backbone of the Soviet and Russian strategic submarine fleet since their introduction in 1973.
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Dipole antenna
In radio and telecommunications a dipole antenna or doublet is the simplest and most widely used class of antenna.
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Dunay radar
Dunay radar (Dunay literally Danube; NATO: Cat House, Dog House) was a system of two Soviet radars used to detect American ballistic missiles fired at Moscow.
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Early-warning radar
An early-warning radar is any radar system used primarily for the long-range detection of its targets, i.e., allowing defences to be alerted as early as possible before the intruder reaches its target, giving the air defences the maximum time in which to operate.
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Eglin AFB Site C-6
Eglin AFB Site C-6 is an Air Force Space Command radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment.
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Eglin Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.
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Eldorado Air Force Station
Eldorado Air Force Station located 35 miles south of San Angelo, Texas was one of the four unique AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS, early-warning phased-array radar systems.
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Electronic Systems Center
Electronic Systems Center was a product center of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) headquartered at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts.
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Environmental impact statement
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".
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Ewing family of tumors
The Ewing family of tumors is a group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing tumors (EOE tumors), primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET or peripheral neuroepithelioma), and Askin tumors (PNET of the chest wall).
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Ewing's sarcoma
Ewing's sarcoma or Ewing sarcoma is a malignant small, round, blue cell tumor.
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Falling Leaves (radar network)
Falling Leaves was the improvised ballistic missile early warning system during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that networked 3 existing CONUS radars—2 Space Detection and Tracking System (SPADATS) radars and an Aircraft Control and Warning general surveillance radar which was modified by Sperry Corporation to range, allowing detection in space near Cuba.
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Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.
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Federation of American Scientists
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is a 501(c)(3) organization with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to attempt to make the world more secure.
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Fourteenth Air Force
The Fourteenth Air Force (14 AF; Air Forces Strategic) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Space Command (AFSPC).
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Georges Bank
Georges Bank (formerly known as St. Georges Bank) is a large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada).
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Ground Equipment Facility QRC
Ground Equipment Facility QRC (FUDS C03PA046300: "Benton Air Force Communications Annex") is an FAA radar station that was part of a Cold War SAGE radar station (Benton Air Force Station, call sign: Oppose) for aircraft control and warning "from Massachusetts to southern Virginia, and as far out to sea as possible." Benton AFS was also the first operational "regional data processing center" for the GE 477L Nuclear Detection and Reporting System.
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Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) is the United States' anti-ballistic missile system for intercepting incoming warheads in space, during the midcourse phase of ballistic trajectory flight.
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Hans Mark
Hans Michael Mark (born June 17, 1929 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former Secretary of the Air Force and a former Deputy Administrator of NASA.
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Hanscom Air Force Base
Hanscom Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located predominantly within Bedford, Massachusetts, with portions extending into the adjoining towns of Lincoln, Concord and Lexington.
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Initial operating capability
Initial operating capability or Initial operational capability (IOC) is the state achieved when a capability is available in its minimum usefully deployable form.
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).
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John C. Stetson
John Charles Stetson (September 6, 1920 – August 1, 2007 in Lake Forest, Illinois) was a U.S. administrator.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is a body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.
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Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula (полуо́стров Камча́тка, Poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometre-long (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi).
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LGM-30 Minuteman
The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego (LMSI) was a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, in the Electronic Systems sector, located in Owego, New York, with approximately 4,000 employees.
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Manassas Air Force Station
Manassas Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-55 NORAD ID: Z-55) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station.
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Missile Defense Alarm System
The Missile Defense Alarm System, or MIDAS, was an American system of 12 early-warning satellites that provided limited notice of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile launches between 1960 and 1966.
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Moorestown, New Jersey
Moorestown is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and an eastern suburb of Philadelphia.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as "NASEM" or "the National Academies") is the collective scientific national academy of the United States.
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National Air and Space Intelligence Center
The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) is the United States Air Force unit for analyzing military intelligence on foreign air and space forces, weapons, and systems.
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National Military Command Center
The National Military Command Center (NMCC) is a Pentagon command and communications center for the National Command Authority (i.e., the President of the United States and the United States Secretary of Defense).
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement defined as exactly.
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North Truro Air Force Station
North Truro Air Force Station (AFS) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station.
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Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS
The Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) is a United States Air Force Airborne ground surveillance, battle management and command and control aircraft.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.
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Passive electronically scanned array
A passive electronically scanned array (PESA), also known as passive phased array, is a phased array antenna, that is an antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions, in which all the antenna elements are connected to a single transmitter (such as a magnetron, a klystron or a travelling wave tube) and/or receiver.
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PAVE
The word PAVE is a United States Air Force program identifier relating to electronic systems.
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Permanent System radar stations
The Permanent System ("P system") was a 1950s radar network ("P radar net") used for the CONUS "manual air defense system" and which had a USAF aircraft control and warning (AC&W) organization of personnel and military installations with radars to allow Air Defense Command ground-controlled interception of Cold War bombers attacking the United States.
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Permissible exposure limit
The permissible exposure limit (PEL or OSHA PEL) is a legal limit in the United States for exposure of an employee to a chemical substance or physical agent such as loud noise.
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PGM-17 Thor
Thor was the first operational ballistic missile deployed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF).
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Phase (waves)
Phase is the position of a point in time (an instant) on a waveform cycle.
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Phase shift module
A phase shift module is a microwave network module which provides a controllable phase shift of the RF signal.
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Phased array
In antenna theory, a phased array usually means an electronically scanned array; a computer-controlled array of antennas which creates a beam of radio waves which can be electronically steered to point in different directions, without moving the antennas.
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Preemptive war
A preemptive war is a war that is commenced in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly unavoidable) war shortly before that attack materializes.
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Project Space Track
Project Space Track was a research and development project of the US Air Force, to create a system for tracking all artificial earth satellites and space probes, domestic and foreign.
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Qatar
Qatar (or; قطر; local vernacular pronunciation), officially the State of Qatar (دولة قطر), is a sovereign country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
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R-29 Vysota
R-29 Vysota Р-29 Высота (height, altitude) is a family of Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missiles, designed by Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau.
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RAF Fylingdales
RAF Fylingdales is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England.
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Raven Rock Mountain Complex
The Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC) is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, at Raven Rock Mountain that has been called an "underground Pentagon." The bunker has emergency operations centers for the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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Raytheon
The Raytheon Company is a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.
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Request for information
A request for information (RFI) is a standard business process whose purpose is to collect written information about the capabilities of various suppliers.
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Request for proposal
A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals.
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Robins Air Force Base
Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States.
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Rome Laboratory
Rome Laboratory (Rome Air Development Center until 1991) is the US "Air Force 'superlab' for command, control, and communications" research and development and is responsible for planning and executing the USAF science and technology program.
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Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in Marshall Islands (Pacific Ocean).
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Safeguard Program
The Safeguard Program was a U.S. Army anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system designed to protect the U.S. Air Force's Minuteman ICBM silos from attack, thus preserving the US's nuclear deterrent fleet.
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SAGE radar stations
The SAGE radar stations of Air Defense Command (Aerospace Defense Command after 1968) were the military installations operated by USAF squadrons using the 1st automated air defense environment (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) and networked by the SAGE System, a computer network.
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Solid State Phased Array Radar System
The Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS, colloquially "BMEWS radar network'" as late as 2004) is a USAF radar, computer, and communications system for missile warning and space surveillance "at five (5) geographically separated units worldwide including Beale AFB, CA, Cape Cod, AFS, MA, Clear AFS, AK, RAF Fylingdales, UK, and Thule AB, Greenland." SSPARS completed replacement of the RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System when the last SSPAR (phased array radar with 2500 "solid state transmitter" modules) was operational at Clear in 2001, the year SSPARS equipment included.
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Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex
The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex was a cluster of military facilities near Grand Forks, North Dakota that supported the United States Army's Safeguard anti-ballistic missile program.
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Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad," with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).
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Submarine-launched ballistic missile
A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines.
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Allied Command Operations (ACO).
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Tai'an, Miaoli
Tai'an Township is a mountain indigenous township in southeastern Miaoli County, Taiwan.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Texas Tower 2
Texas Tower 2 (ADC ID: TT-2) is a former United States Air Force Texas Tower General Surveillance Radar station.
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Thule Air Base
Thule Air Base, or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport, is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland.
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Thule Site J
Thule Site J (J-Site) is a United States Air Force (USAF) radar station in Greenland near Thule Air Base for missile warning and spacecraft tracking.
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Titan (rocket family)
Titan is a family of United States expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005.
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To be announced
To be announced (TBA), to be confirmed (TBC), and to be determined (or to be decided) (TBD) are placeholder terms used very broadly in event planning to indicate that although something is scheduled or expected to happen, a particular aspect of that remains to be arranged or confirmed.
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UGM-27 Polaris
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.
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United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Department of the Air Force
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is one of the three Military Departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.
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United States House Committee on Armed Services
The U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, commonly known as the House Armed Services Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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United States Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the leader and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, the executive department of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
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United States Secretary of the Air Force
The Secretary of the Air Force (SecAF, or SAF/OS) is the head of the Department of the Air Force, a component organization within the Department of Defense of the United States.
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United States Space Surveillance Network
The United States Space Surveillance Network detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris.
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Voronezh radar
Voronezh radars (РЛС Воронеж) are the current generation of Russian early-warning radar, providing long distance monitoring of airspace against ballistic missile attack and aircraft monitoring.
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Wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude.
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Wayland, Massachusetts
Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Worldwide Military Command and Control System
The Worldwide Military Command and Control System, or WWMCCS, was a military command and control system implemented for the command and control of the United States military.
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6th Space Warning Squadron
The 6th Space Warning Squadron is located at Cape Cod Air Force Station, in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
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7th Space Warning Squadron
The 7th Space Warning Squadron (7th SWS) guards the U.S. West Coast against sea-launched ballistic missiles from the eastern outskirts of Beale Air Force Base approximately east of Marysville, California.
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8th Space Warning Squadron
The United States Air Force's 8th Space Warning Squadron is an Air Force Reserve missile warning unit located at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado.
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9th Space Warning Squadron
The United States Air Force's 9th Space Warning Squadron (9 SWS) was a United States Air Force missile warning unit located at Robins AFB, Georgia.
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Redirects here:
AN/FPS-115, AN/FPS-120, AN/FPS-123, AN/FPS-126, CYBER-174, FPS 115, FPS 120, FPS 123, FPS 126, FPS-115, FPS-120, FPS-123, FPS-126, FPS115, FPS120, FPS123, FPS126, MODCOMP IV, PAVE PAWS Early Warning Radar System, PAVE PAWS radar, PAWS radar, Pave Paws, Pave Paws Early Warning Radar System, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System, Phased Array Warning System, Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAVE_PAWS
