Phillips Laboratory / Thompson Products / Air Force Astronautics Laboratory / Test Group / Air Force Research Laboratory / Aerospace Corporation / Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation / Air Force Weapons Laboratory / Air Force Geophysics Laboratory / Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory / /
Event
Reorganization / Company Expansion / M&A / /
Facility
Vandenberg Air Force Base / Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory / Vandenberg AFB / Air Force Geophysics Laboratory / Phillips Laboratory / Cape Canaveral Air Force Station / HQ SAMTO / Cooke AFB / Air Force Satellite Control Facility / Eglin AFB / Wright Air Development Center / Air Base Wing / Kirtland AFB / Air Force Weapons Laboratory / Air Force Astronautics Laboratory / Fort MacArthur / /
IndustryTerm
satellite launches / satellite program / systems engineering / satellite control function / space technology efforts / satellite system / space systems / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Canaveral / /
OperatingSystem
BSD / /
Organization
Pentagon / Space and Missile Systems Organization / Ballistic Missile Organization / Eisenhower administration / Missile Test Center / Air Armament Center / Space Command / Bush administration / Air Force Systems Command / Ballistic Missile Office / Air Force Materiel Command / SMC / Western Space and Missile Center / Space Systems Division / Air Force Space Command / Wright Air Development Center / Army / Eastern Space and Missile Center / Packard Commission / Navy / Ballistic Systems Division / Space and Missile Test Organization / Missile Test Organization / Congress / Space and Missile Test Center / Advanced Research Projects Agency / Air Research and Development Command / Space Division / Reconnaissance Office / first Air Force / Space Commission / Western Development Division / Space and Missile Systems Center / National Range Division / Air Force Space Test Center / Air Force Ballistic Missile Division / Air Force / Department of Defense / Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management / /
Person
Brian A. Arnold / James G. Roche / Robert McNamara / Roger G. DeKok / Donald Rumsfeld / Bush / Osmond Ritland / Neil McElroy / /
Position
vice commander / President / Secretary of Defense / General / Secretary / Program Executive / Brigadier General / commander / Under Secretary / Lieutenant General / Executive Programs / commander / directing that all acquisition programs / Brigadier / /
CHAPTER I: MISSION AND ORGANIZATION Organizational Evolution The Space and Missile Systems Center traces its ancestry back to the Western Development Division (WDD) of the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC). WDD