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Granite Sentry was a
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improvement program "to provide a Message Processing Subsystem and a Video Distribution Subsystem, and o upgradethe NORAD Computer System display capability and four major centers: (1) the
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, (2) the NORAD Command Center, (3) the Battle Staff Support Center, and (4) the Weather Support Unit." Granite Sentry was also to process and display "
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data provided from the Integrated Correlation and Display System." For $230 million the program was also to "replace display screens of the Attack Warning and Attack Assessment System", and Granite Sentry was delayed from 1993 to 1996. Granite Sentry and other
Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a Space Force installation and defensive bunker located in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, next to the city of Colorado Springs, at the Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, which hosts the activities of ...
interfaces were tested in 1997, and Granite Sentry's processing regarding "simulated ucleardetonation messages…injected into the
Defense Support Program The Defense Support Program (DSP) is a program of the United States Space Force that operated the reconnaissance satellites which form the principal component of the ''Satellite Early Warning System'' used by the United States. DSP satellite ...
Data Distribution Center asnot adequate...".


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