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NORAD not moving — for now
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2007 7:27:53 EST
Congress has put the brakes on a plan to relocate North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command from the secretive Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
The 2008 defense authorization bill approved Dec. 6 by the House and Senate armed services committees orders that the move not go ahead until the Office of the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a cost-benefit analysis and final plans for the relocation.
OSD must also include in its report a security and vulnerability assessment of the command’s proposed new home at Peterson.
The bill withholds $5 million from the Air Force’s 2008 budget that the service intended to put toward partially shutting down Cheyenne Mountain. Plans call for putting the facility in what it calls a “warm standby” status.
The report must be submitted by March 1, the bill said, and the Air Force will get its $5 million once OSD submits the report.
NORAD is charged with defending U.S. airspace, and for decades, it has used Cheyenne Mountain as a secure, blast-proof location from which to watch the skies for missiles, aircraft and other threats.
But Adm. Timothy Keating, then commander of NORAD and Northern Command, told the Denver Post last year that the need to maintain a 24-hour-a-day nuclear-proof facility has diminished because a nuclear strike by China or Russia appears unlikely.
Air Force Space Command decided last year to relocate its Joint Space Operations Center-Mountain from Cheyenne Mountain to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and NORAD announced in July 2006 that it would move most of its personnel from the facility.
The moves would leave the hardened Cold War-era complex nearly deserted. As recently as last year, it hosted more than 1,000 military and civilian employees.
Cheyenne Mountain was conceived in 1961, at the height of the nuclear threat. But it took so long to excavate 700,000 tons of granite and create a base deep in the mountain that the facility didn't become operational until 1966.
The complex is protected by 2,000 feet of granite above and 25-ton blast doors.
The facility secured a place in the popular imagination by serving as the basis for movies such as 1983’s “War Games,” in which a rogue computer nearly starts World War III.
美北美防空司令部迁移情况
美军北美防空司令部2006年7月曾计划从夏延山空军站迁移至彼得森空军基地，但近期美国会宣布叫停此项迁移计划。美国会12月6日批准的2008年国防授权法案中宣布停止迁移计划，直到国防部办公室2008年3月1日前提交一份迁移财务分析和最终计划后再进行审议。此前，美空军计划在2008财年花费500万美元迁移并封存夏延山空军站的设施，但现在此笔经费需要在国防部办公室提交新报告后才能获得。美空军航天司令部于去年决定从夏延山迁至范登堡空军基地，一旦北美防空司令部迁移获的批准将使1961年建成的具备核防御能力的夏延山空军站彻底废弃。NORAD not moving — for now
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2007 7:27:53 EST
Congress has put the brakes on a plan to relocate North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command from the secretive Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
The 2008 defense authorization bill approved Dec. 6 by the House and Senate armed services committees orders that the move not go ahead until the Office of the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a cost-benefit analysis and final plans for the relocation.
OSD must also include in its report a security and vulnerability assessment of the command’s proposed new home at Peterson.
The bill withholds $5 million from the Air Force’s 2008 budget that the service intended to put toward partially shutting down Cheyenne Mountain. Plans call for putting the facility in what it calls a “warm standby” status.
The report must be submitted by March 1, the bill said, and the Air Force will get its $5 million once OSD submits the report.
NORAD is charged with defending U.S. airspace, and for decades, it has used Cheyenne Mountain as a secure, blast-proof location from which to watch the skies for missiles, aircraft and other threats.
But Adm. Timothy Keating, then commander of NORAD and Northern Command, told the Denver Post last year that the need to maintain a 24-hour-a-day nuclear-proof facility has diminished because a nuclear strike by China or Russia appears unlikely.
Air Force Space Command decided last year to relocate its Joint Space Operations Center-Mountain from Cheyenne Mountain to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and NORAD announced in July 2006 that it would move most of its personnel from the facility.
The moves would leave the hardened Cold War-era complex nearly deserted. As recently as last year, it hosted more than 1,000 military and civilian employees.
Cheyenne Mountain was conceived in 1961, at the height of the nuclear threat. But it took so long to excavate 700,000 tons of granite and create a base deep in the mountain that the facility didn't become operational until 1966.
The complex is protected by 2,000 feet of granite above and 25-ton blast doors.
The facility secured a place in the popular imagination by serving as the basis for movies such as 1983’s “War Games,” in which a rogue computer nearly starts World War III.
美北美防空司令部迁移情况
美军北美防空司令部2006年7月曾计划从夏延山空军站迁移至彼得森空军基地，但近期美国会宣布叫停此项迁移计划。美国会12月6日批准的2008年国防授权法案中宣布停止迁移计划，直到国防部办公室2008年3月1日前提交一份迁移财务分析和最终计划后再进行审议。此前，美空军计划在2008财年花费500万美元迁移并封存夏延山空军站的设施，但现在此笔经费需要在国防部办公室提交新报告后才能获得。美空军航天司令部于去年决定从夏延山迁至范登堡空军基地，一旦北美防空司令部迁移获的批准将使1961年建成的具备核防御能力的夏延山空军站彻底废弃。
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2007 7:27:53 EST
Congress has put the brakes on a plan to relocate North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command from the secretive Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
The 2008 defense authorization bill approved Dec. 6 by the House and Senate armed services committees orders that the move not go ahead until the Office of the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a cost-benefit analysis and final plans for the relocation.
OSD must also include in its report a security and vulnerability assessment of the command’s proposed new home at Peterson.
The bill withholds $5 million from the Air Force’s 2008 budget that the service intended to put toward partially shutting down Cheyenne Mountain. Plans call for putting the facility in what it calls a “warm standby” status.
The report must be submitted by March 1, the bill said, and the Air Force will get its $5 million once OSD submits the report.
NORAD is charged with defending U.S. airspace, and for decades, it has used Cheyenne Mountain as a secure, blast-proof location from which to watch the skies for missiles, aircraft and other threats.
But Adm. Timothy Keating, then commander of NORAD and Northern Command, told the Denver Post last year that the need to maintain a 24-hour-a-day nuclear-proof facility has diminished because a nuclear strike by China or Russia appears unlikely.
Air Force Space Command decided last year to relocate its Joint Space Operations Center-Mountain from Cheyenne Mountain to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and NORAD announced in July 2006 that it would move most of its personnel from the facility.
The moves would leave the hardened Cold War-era complex nearly deserted. As recently as last year, it hosted more than 1,000 military and civilian employees.
Cheyenne Mountain was conceived in 1961, at the height of the nuclear threat. But it took so long to excavate 700,000 tons of granite and create a base deep in the mountain that the facility didn't become operational until 1966.
The complex is protected by 2,000 feet of granite above and 25-ton blast doors.
The facility secured a place in the popular imagination by serving as the basis for movies such as 1983’s “War Games,” in which a rogue computer nearly starts World War III.
美北美防空司令部迁移情况
美军北美防空司令部2006年7月曾计划从夏延山空军站迁移至彼得森空军基地，但近期美国会宣布叫停此项迁移计划。美国会12月6日批准的2008年国防授权法案中宣布停止迁移计划，直到国防部办公室2008年3月1日前提交一份迁移财务分析和最终计划后再进行审议。此前，美空军计划在2008财年花费500万美元迁移并封存夏延山空军站的设施，但现在此笔经费需要在国防部办公室提交新报告后才能获得。美空军航天司令部于去年决定从夏延山迁至范登堡空军基地，一旦北美防空司令部迁移获的批准将使1961年建成的具备核防御能力的夏延山空军站彻底废弃。NORAD not moving — for now
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2007 7:27:53 EST
Congress has put the brakes on a plan to relocate North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command from the secretive Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
The 2008 defense authorization bill approved Dec. 6 by the House and Senate armed services committees orders that the move not go ahead until the Office of the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a cost-benefit analysis and final plans for the relocation.
OSD must also include in its report a security and vulnerability assessment of the command’s proposed new home at Peterson.
The bill withholds $5 million from the Air Force’s 2008 budget that the service intended to put toward partially shutting down Cheyenne Mountain. Plans call for putting the facility in what it calls a “warm standby” status.
The report must be submitted by March 1, the bill said, and the Air Force will get its $5 million once OSD submits the report.
NORAD is charged with defending U.S. airspace, and for decades, it has used Cheyenne Mountain as a secure, blast-proof location from which to watch the skies for missiles, aircraft and other threats.
But Adm. Timothy Keating, then commander of NORAD and Northern Command, told the Denver Post last year that the need to maintain a 24-hour-a-day nuclear-proof facility has diminished because a nuclear strike by China or Russia appears unlikely.
Air Force Space Command decided last year to relocate its Joint Space Operations Center-Mountain from Cheyenne Mountain to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and NORAD announced in July 2006 that it would move most of its personnel from the facility.
The moves would leave the hardened Cold War-era complex nearly deserted. As recently as last year, it hosted more than 1,000 military and civilian employees.
Cheyenne Mountain was conceived in 1961, at the height of the nuclear threat. But it took so long to excavate 700,000 tons of granite and create a base deep in the mountain that the facility didn't become operational until 1966.
The complex is protected by 2,000 feet of granite above and 25-ton blast doors.
The facility secured a place in the popular imagination by serving as the basis for movies such as 1983’s “War Games,” in which a rogue computer nearly starts World War III.
美北美防空司令部迁移情况
美军北美防空司令部2006年7月曾计划从夏延山空军站迁移至彼得森空军基地，但近期美国会宣布叫停此项迁移计划。美国会12月6日批准的2008年国防授权法案中宣布停止迁移计划，直到国防部办公室2008年3月1日前提交一份迁移财务分析和最终计划后再进行审议。此前，美空军计划在2008财年花费500万美元迁移并封存夏延山空军站的设施，但现在此笔经费需要在国防部办公室提交新报告后才能获得。美空军航天司令部于去年决定从夏延山迁至范登堡空军基地，一旦北美防空司令部迁移获的批准将使1961年建成的具备核防御能力的夏延山空军站彻底废弃。