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The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), based at Florida's Patrick Space Force Base, is an Air Force surveillance organization assigned to the Sixteenth Air Force. Its mission is to monitor nuclear treaties of all applicable signatory countries.
The installation was renamed Patrick Air Force Base in August 1950. [17] From 1966 to 1975, the Space Coast was the second most visited spot by VIPs, after Washington, DC, due to the Space Program. A protocol officer was assigned to Patrick to coordinate these visits, about three weekly, consisting of 10 to 150 people. [18]
The Air Force Technical Applications Center, originally organized in 1959 as 1035th U.S. Air Force Field Activities Group, operated five technical operation squadrons to support its nuclear treaty monitoring mission. [1] [2] A 2014 reorganiation of the AF Technical Applications Center resulted in the activation of a single squadron
The Space Launch Delta 45 (SLD 45) is the host wing for Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, providing base support for NASA, the Air Force's Technical Applications Center and 920th Rescue Wing, and U.S. Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Unit. [5]
US Space Force installation hosting the Air Force Technical Applications Center. [47] Also home to the Air Force Reserve Commands 920th Rescue Wing which operates the HC-130N Combat King and HH-60G Pave Hawk, as well as the Florida Air National Guard's 114th Space Control Squadron. [48] Naval Air Station Pensacola: Pensacola: Florida
Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick Space Force Base, Florida In 2009, responsibility for nuclear-capable bombers, specifically the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress , along with their associated units, bases and personnel, were transferred from ACC to the newly established Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ).
Patrick AFB was selected as its home location because the active duty Air Force's then-2nd Communications Group was also located at Patrick AFB and could provide training and mentorship. The level of highly technical industries located on the Space Coast and in the nearby Orlando/Central Florida area also factored to place the 114th in Cocoa ...
The Missile Test Project (MTP) was a U.S. Air Force program operated by RCA Service Company from Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, under the direction of prime contractor Pan American Guided Missiles Research Division during the 1950s and continuing on for several more decades.