Ground Wave Emergency Network. Final Operational Capability. Environmental Assessment for Southern Nevada Relay Node, Site No. RN 8W918NV

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Abstract:

The Ground Wave Emergency Network GWEN is a radio communication system designed to relay emergency messages between strategic military areas in the continental United States. The system is immune to the effects of high- altitude electromagnetic pulse HEMP energy surges caused by nuclear bursts in the ionosphere that would disrupt conventional communications equipment such as telephones and shortwave radios. A failure of such equipment would prevent timely communications among top military and civilian leaders and strategic Air Force locations and prevent U.S. assessment and retaliation during an attack. GWEN is an essential part of a defense modernization program to upgrade and improve our nations communications system, thereby strengthening deterrence. The GWEN system consists of a network of relay nodes, receive-only stations, and inputoutput stations. Each relay node, such as the one proposed in southern Nevada consists of a guyed radio tower facility similar to those used by commercial AM broadcast transmitters

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS CENTER HANSCOM AFB MA
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA267647
Pagination:
0147

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Monitor Series:
AFMC
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.1.1_Establish and Maintain Unity of Effort with Mission Partners; JCA_5.1_Organize; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_4.5.4_Requirements Definition; JCA_4.5_Operational Contract Support; JCA_1.2.1_Training; JCA_1.3.1_Personnel and Family Support; JCA_4.2.2_Inventory Management; JCA_4.2_Supply; JCA_4.4.1_Food Service; JCA_4.4_Logistics Services
Modernization Areas:
Directed Energy
Communities of Interest:
Biomedical
Descriptor(s):
*CRISIS MANAGEMENT, *EMERGENCIES, *STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, *RADIO RELAY SYSTEMS, *GROUND WAVES(ELECTROMAGNETIC), NODES, MILITARY MODERNIZATION, NEVADA, RADIO TOWERS, DETERRENCE
Field(s)/Group(s):
Radiofrequency Wave Propagation, Radio Communications
Keyword(s):
GWEN(GROUND WAVE EMERGENCY NETWORK)
Report Date:
1993 Mar 05