Officer Tells of Strides Made in
Attack Warning System Development
Fantastic developments that
smack of Buck Rogers, but that
are now accomplishments in the
warning system designed to pro
tect the United States from sur
prise attack, were described for
Rotarians Tuesday at their noon
Vuncheon at the 49 Room by 1st
Lt Don M. Fenner, Air Force,
who is on leave visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fenner.
Lt. Fenner is stationed at Rich
ards-Gebaur Air Force Base, near
Kansas CityJMo., which is the site
of the warning system he told
about.
The system is called SAGE, he
said, and stands for Semi-Auto
matic Ground Environment. About
the only thing that keeps it from
being completely automatic, he
added, is that at one point some
one must make the decision to
shoot or not shoot, if an enemy
plane is detected.
Even White Alice, the commun
ication network that has a unit at
Kodiak, plays a part, along with
the DEW line, PINE line, and
Texas towers; the Navy provides
transportation, the ACS communi
cation, and the NIKE and other
missile sites, and ever-alert inter
ceptor and fighterplanes perform
the last steps before destruction
of an enemy.
The country, he explained, is
divided in 29 SAGE sectors. There
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will be 29 SAGE units, or build
ings as the working nucleus of
each. There is already one at Mc
Cord field, one in Alaska, and also
one at the Richards-Gebaur base,
which is also used for training
purposes.
The building is about 100 feet
square and 4 stories high. It is
full of electronic computers, radar
equipment and communication de
vices. Information on all the com
mercial planes is fed into the
machines,and it keeps track of
where they are throughout their
courses. On the new radar the
plane is not shown as a blip, he
explained, but as a coded number,
that indicates information as to
type, etc. of the plane itself. If
there are too many planes on the
screen, any of them can be erased
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