Editing Rome Laboratory (section)

==== Command and Control development ====
On 1 July 1960, RADC was assigned to the [[Air Force Command and Control Development Division]].{{r|DelPapa}} In late 1960, RADC conducted an "Experimental Passive-Satellite Communication Link" using the [[Project Echo]] satellite and [[Philco]] terminals for voice transmissions through space from the [[Trinidad Atlantic Missile Range Tracking Station|Trinidad Space Communication Facility]]<!--Trinidad Radar - AD0619222.pdf--> to the RADC's Floyd site.<ref name=Pratt>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/619222.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170104/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/619222.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-07-14|title=Article title}} Carried out with "[[RCA AN/FPS-49 Radar Set|BMEWS type radar tracker]]" using "AN/FRC-56 type" transmitter and "84FT DISH."</ref> In August 1962, RADC established the "AFLC Communications-Electronics Field Office" to monitor missile tests.{{r|Mueller}}

A "60-foot-diameter" antenna at the Floyd site built by RADC "particularly to communicate with [[Project Echo|ECHO II]]" was dedicated on 30 August 1963.<ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel%201963/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel%201963%20-%203917.pdf PASSIVE SATELLITE RESEARCH TERMINAL]</ref>  In 1965 based on the USMC [[AN/MPQ-14]], the "[[Combat Skyspot|SKYSPOT]] RADC developmental program" designed the [[Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central|AN/MSQ-77 with ballistic computer]] for [[Vietnam War]] [[Ground Directed Bombing#Vietnam War|high-altitude, low-visibility (e.g., nighttime, inclement weather) strategic bombing missions]], and which was also used as a "[[Close Air Support]] Bombing System".{{r|SmithByrd}}