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The Fifty-Year Role of the United States Air Force in Advancing Information Technology: A History of the Rome, New York Ground Electronics Laboratory (Studies ... Twentieth Century American History, V. 10)
Thomas W. Thompson
Hardcover. Edwin Mellen Press 2004-02.
ISBN 9780773465381
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Provides information previously unavailable: the role of the US Air Force
inadvancing information and electronics technology. The Air Force established a
far-reaching research effort upon becoming a separate service in 1947 and Rome
laboratory, est. 1951, the Force's primary ground electronics lab. Details Air
Force involvement in development of radio, radar, satellites, computers, etc.
Foreword; As a former commander of Rome Laboratory, I am particularly proud of
the rich legacy of Air Force science and technology developed in Rome
chronicled in this great book. I am equally proud of the dedicated citizens who
have served at Rome - men and women, civilians and military, government workers
and contractors - and the speed at which they have transitioned their work into
military systems that have revolutionized our military. Rome, New York, is an
all-American town with its own unique place in American history. On August 3, 1777, the Stars and Stripes were first flown over Fort Stanwix
on the colonial frontier at the present site of Rome. The bloodiest battle of
the Revolutionary War was fought a stone's throw from here at Oriskany, New
York, where the British attempted to divide the rebellious colonies - and
failed. On July 4, 1817, construction of the Erie Canal began in Rome near an
historic Native American portage site between the eastward flowing Mohawk River
and others that flow to the west. The Erie Canal accelerated development of the
American western frontier and firmly established New York City as the nation's
commercial center. Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance here in 1892
for school children to recite on the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus'
arrival in the Americas. Nestled in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in the legendary
Mohawk Valley, Rome is also the home to a major research unit of the Air Force
Research Laboratory - the Rome Research Site. This site is home to the
Headquarters of AFRL's Information Directorate and a portion of AFRL's Sensors
Directorate. At an earlier time, this was known as the Rome Air Development
Center, and, more recently, as Rome Laboratory. The U.S. Air Force's Rome (New York) Laboratory now the Air Force Research
Laboratory, Rome Research Site has been involved in conducting research into
radar systems, computer networks, and other information technologies involved
in military activities. The official historian of the laboratory, Thom
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