The Olney Support Center, formerly the Olney Federal Support Center, is an underground facility of the Carderock Division of the U.S.

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(NSWC) located in Montgomery County,

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. The center occupies of property east of

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, on the site of a former

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base. The NSWC acquired the facility from the

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(FEMA) in March 2019. Prior to its acquisition by the NSWC, the center was a communications, satellite teleregistration and data network facility. It at one time housed the FEMA Alternate Operations Center (FAOC)The Alternate National Warning Center (ANWC) was renamed the FEMA Alternate Operations Center (FAOC) in 1999. See The FAOC may have since relocated to the FEMA Regional Center in

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. See as a control center for the U.S. National Warning System. It was also part of the FEMA National Radio System (FNARS), a high-frequency radio network that links FEMA's emergency operations centers.

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