A command, control, and coordination system (CCCS) was a

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

computer system for United States command posts (e.g.,

Army Air Defense Command Post An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

s) to use a single location to coordinate multiple units'

ground-controlled interception Ground-controlled interception (GCI) is an air defence tactic whereby one or more radar stations or other observational stations are linked to a command communications centre which guides interceptor aircraft to an airborne target. This tactic was p ...

(e.g., USAF interceptor squadrons at various locations by

Semi-Automatic Ground Environment The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) was a system of mainframe computer, large computers and associated computer network, networking equipment that coordinated data from many radar sites and processed it to produce a single unified image ...

Direction Centers) and may refer to: *

Backup Interceptor Control System Backup Interceptor Control (BUIC, ) was the Electronic Systems Division 416M System to backup the SAGE 416L System in the United States and Canada. BUIC deployed Cold War command, control, and coordination systems to SAGE radar stations to create ...

(BUIC), a dispersed USAF CCCS of the SAGE System *

Burroughs AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group The Burroughs AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group was a United States Air Force air defense command, control, and coordination system, part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system. It was intended to replace vacuum tube IBM AN/FSQ-7 Comba ...

(BUIC II), a replacement USAF CCCS fielded in 1966 *

Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System The Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote Nike missile launch batteries. The radar netting system replace the vacuum tube A ...

, a mobile replacement US Army CCCS for coordinating NIKE and HAWK missile sites * AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, a vacuum tube USAF CCCS fielded in 1958 for coordinating BOMARC launch sites *

Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System The Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System, better known as Missile Master, was an electronic fire distribution center to computerize Cold War air defense (AD) command posts from manual plotting board operations to automated command and cont ...

, a vacuum tube US Army CCCS at 10 NIKE Missile Master installations *

Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar Display Equipment The Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote surface-to-air missile launch batteries. The solid state radar netting ...

(BIRDIE), a mobile replacement US Army CCCS for NIKE & HAWK

References

{{Reflist Command and control Cold War-related lists Command and control systems of the United States military