Raven Rock Mountain Complex
Site R is a largely secret underground facility of the U.S. government in Mountain Raven Rock in Pennsylvania, which is located about 14 km east of Waynesboro and 10 km north-northeast of Camp David.
Today's functions should include the DISA system and other important computer systems that have meaning for the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, including programs for disaster as JSSC 's GMC and DISA GCC. Various means the Army, Navy and Air Force are on the system, such as the Emergency Operations Center ( AFEOC ).
History
Planning for Site R, also known as Raven Rock, began in 1948. According to the explosion of the first Soviet atomic bomb RDS -1 on 29 August 1949, the establishment of a nuclear bomb proof bunker near Washington was supported by the Joint Command Post promoted where important government agencies continue to work in a crisis could. 1950, President Harry S. Truman to Raven Rock part of Camp Albert Ritchie in Maryland, which was designated as an Alternate Joint Communications Center ( AJCC ) Site R and was expanded to full functioning in the years 1951-1953.
Between 1953 and 1971, Site R was led by the U.S. Army Joint Support Command expanded for new telecommunications devices, such as the Strategic Communications Command ( STRATCOM ) and the Directorate of Telecommunications. In 1976, the plant as USACC Site R Telecommunications Center was divided under the new 7th Signal Command and placed under the command of Fort Ritchie Garrison in 1978 with the Directorate of Telecommunications. Starting in 1977, the program was classified as the area of the U.S. Department of Defense and an "Alternate National Military Command and Control Center" set up which was to serve primarily the development of a low-lying and heavily fortified underground facility. The main purpose of the plant was a long survivability in the event of nuclear war, what about five kilometers of new tunnels and access shafts were created in Raven Rock.
In October 1981, the telecommunications center of Site R ( USACC ) in USACC Site R under Headquarters was 7th Sign and renamed again in May 1984 in USAISC Site R as a message unit of the 7th Signal Command. In October 1988, another name change to the 1111th U.S. Army Signal Battalion of the 1101st U.S. Army Signal Brigade Command at Fort Lesley J. McNair (Washington, DC ) was followed as Unterstützungsbataillion the Army with responsibility for communications equipment from site R of the AJCC. In October 1993, this unit with a static name 1111th U.S. Army Signal Battalion of the 1108th U.S. Army Signal Brigade in Fort Ritchie (Maryland) was assumed, with the task field was restricted solely to the communication functions.
Other transfers and name changes of the unit took place in the last 15 years, probably as similar actions previously served only the confusion of military opponent and its own media: 1995 Base Realignment and Closure conducted a Commission units of the U.S. Army Signal Command from Fort Ritchie to Fort Detrick brigade with the remit communication over long distances on the east coast, including the 1108th U.S. Army Signal, the 1111th U.S. Army signal Battalion and information Systems Engineering Command -Continental United States ( ISEC - CONUS ), the 1110th U.S. Army signal Battalion ( already to have been previously stationed at Fort Detrick ) assigned to the 1108th Battalion.
Site R is since 1 October 1997 under the command of Fort Detrick, where the units of Fort Ritchie to have been resolved in September 1998. According to the Boston Globe is at site R to the " secret place ", to which the Vice President of the United States withdraws in times of crisis. Register has been explained by the Department of Defense of the United States that any taking photographs, drawing sketches, maps, etc. of the mountain Raven Rock and the existing facilities there is illegal without proper authorization in the Federal On May 25, 2007.