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SPACE-AGE COMMUNICATIONS
As the space-age becomes a reality, Western Electric's arsenal of communications experience continues in the service of the nation . . . tracking astronauts and missiles in space and shielding the nation with far-flung electronic networks.
Because of our vast background in handling complex electronic and communications projects for the Bell Telephone System, the Government has selected Western Electric as prime contractor on vital military communications, defense and tracking networks.
With high-speed intercontinental bombers in the ’50s came the urgent need for electronic warning systems. When the Air Force decided to build a fence of radar stations across the Arctic, Western Electric was named prime contractor and completed the massive project in just 32 months. This Distant Early Warning ( DEW ) Line— since extended to the Aleutian Islands and soon across Greenland— will stretch 5,000 miles in our defense.
We have also been asked to provide management services for the construction of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment ( SAGE ) System and to design and build the rearward communications for BMEWS. SAGE will be a complex of inter-connecting computers, radars and other equipment making up electronic ground environment in each Air Defense Sector. BMEWS will use long-range radar installations for rapid warning and precise, trajectory predictions of enemy ballistic missiles.
W.E. has been recently named by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to lead an industrial team which is engineering and installing the global tracking and control system for manned space vehicles. This is “Project Mercury,” planned for next year to orbit an astronaut 120 miles in space.
We at Western Electric are indeed proud to help provide the United States with the best military communications, warning, and hacking systems that modern science can achieve.
BMEWS SUBMARINE CABLE is laid by HMS Monarch in the remote, ice-choked ocean north of the Arctic Circle. Western Electric was assigned the responsibility for development and construction of the rearward communications for the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
WHITE ALICE STATION perches among some of the roughest terrain in northwestern Alaska. Built by W.E. for the United States Air Force, the 33station system provides Alaska with greatly improved military and civilian long distance communications.
SAGE PROJECTION SCREEN presents situation display to Sector Commander at Semi-Automatic Ground Environment direction center— allowing a potential enemy air attack to be quickly detected and missiles and fighter aircraft directed to selected targets.
DEW LINE STATION on Baffin Island is part of
the largest single defense system ever constructed —an operating radar system across the top of North America, having its own communications network.