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The fort is about a 10-minute drive from Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park and from Long Branch Beach on the Jersey Shore.The post covered nearly 1,126 acres (4.56 km 2) of land, from the Shrewsbury River on the east, to Route 35 on the west; this area was referred to as 'Main Post.'
Tiros-1 sent the first televised weather photographs of the Earth's cloud cover and weather patterns to the giant 60-foot "Space Sentry" antenna at Fort Monmouth. 1960: The first Large Scale Mobile Computer, the Mobile Digital Computer , was developed at Fort Monmouth. It was the first computer developed for use at the Field Army and theater ...
Located at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, ETDL served as the U.S. Army’s central laboratory for electronics research from 1971 to 1992. [1] In 1992, ETDL was disestablished, and the majority of its operations and personnel were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). [2]
A map of Fort Monmouth in 1941. In light of the ongoing war in Europe, military interest in the United States reached a feverish level as many anticipated the nation’s entry into the second World War. From 1940 to 1941, the Signal Corps established three field laboratories near Fort Monmouth to supplement the expanding research efforts of SCL.
The unit was redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Service Company, 297th Military Intelligence Battalion on 1 February 1990 and was activated at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. During June and July 1994, the elements at Fort Monmouth moved to Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Melissa Ziobro was the last historian at Fort Monmouth before the Army post closed and moved to Maryland. She holds her new book Monday, June 10, 2024, "Fort Monmouth: The U.S. Army's House of ...
The Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (or I2WD) is a component of the US Army Communications-Electronics RD&E Center, based out of Aberdeen Proving Ground. ...
Constituted on 4 December 1943, in the US Army as the 311th Signal Service Battalion, it was activated on 27 December 1943 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. It was redesignated the 77th Signal Service Battalion on 18 June 1947. On 20 October 1947, it was reorganized and redesignated as the 57th Signal Service Company.