7 February 2010. Add satellite photos dated February 1, 2006.
30 June 2002
Aerial photos supplemented and topo maps added. Site C corrected.
Source of maps and photos: Mapquest.com
(color) and TerraServer.
R writes:
You might want to take a look at the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service
[ostensibly State Department communications] nodes at Brandy Station, VA.
Opana, HI, and Croughton, UK.
Former Warrenton Training Center (WTC) web site, currently inactive:
http://www.wtc.gov/
Site D is one of four WTC facilities (sites A,
B, C and D) located in the vicinity
of Warrenton, VA.
Excerpts from US State Department solicitations:
http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/2002/02-February/17-Feb-2002/d-sol.htm
FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 17, 2002 FBO #0077 SOLICITATION
NOTICE
Description The Department of State (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA, intends
to procure through competitive bids, a full duplex, digital circuit, capable
of supporting E-1 (2.048 mbps) service between the Main Distribution Frame
(MDF) American Embassy Bangkok, Thailand and the Main Distribution Frame
(MDF) Warrenton Training Center - D, Elkton, VA.
Description The Department of State (DTS-PO), Fairfax, VA, intends
to procure through competitive bids, a full duplex, digital circuit capable
of supporting T-1 (1.544) Mbps between the Main Distribution Frame (MDF)
American Consulate Hong Kong and the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) Warrenton
Training Center Station D (WTC-D) Warrenton, Virginia.
Description The Department of State (DTS-PO), Fairfax, Va, intends
to procure through competitive bids, a full duplex, digital circuit capable
of supporting 512 Kbps between the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) American
Embassy Kuwait, Kuwait and the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) Warrenton Training
Center Station D (WTC-D) Warrenton, Virginia.
Text and photos from Federation of American Scientists/John Pike, removed
since September 11, 2001:
http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/warrenton_d.htm
Warrenton Station D
State Highway 669
Brandy Station, Culpeper County, VA
Warrenton Station D [Brandy Station] is the primary High Frequency receiver
facility for the CIA Office of Communications, and also hosts a variety of
satellite communications ground station facilities inside the signature "golf
balls" which are the distinctive feature of the facility. As with Station
C, the Brandy Station is linked to the master network operations center at
Station B through the ubiquitous Lightwave Spectrum Inc. fiber-optic cable,
as indicated by the distinctive orange warning signs, which chart the path
of this link at regular intervals through rural Virginia and into the suburbs
of Washington DC.
The Warrenton Training Center [WTC] is a communications training and support
facility of the National Communications System [NCS]. The US Army serves
as executive agent for the administration and management of the facilities
on behalf of the NCS. Center employees include civilian personnel assigned
from various NCS signatory agencies, including the Department of Defense
and the Department of State.
Illustrating the types of activity conducted at this facility, in April 1996
the Department of State, Diplomatic Telecommunications Service [3920 Pender
Drive, Fairfax Center, VA 22030] announced a requirement for one full period,
duplex circuit capable of supporting 64 kbps service. The service was to
be between the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) of the United States Department
of State, Warrenton Training Center, Station D, Warrenton, Virginia and the
MDF of the American Embassy, Singapore, Singapore.
The Warrenton Training Center was first esablished on 01 June 1951 as a
Department of Defense Communication Training Activity with the US Army Element
designated as the executive agent for administration and management of the
center. On 10 June 1973 the center was transferred to teh Department of the
Army and redesignated as the US Army Training Group, Warrenton Training Center,
under the staff cognizance of the US Army Security Agency, the Army cryptologic
service element of the Central Security Service. In consonance with mission
realignments, on 01 September 1982 the center reverted to Defense Department
control as the Warrenton Training Center with facility management by the
Army as executive agent on behalf of the National Communications System.
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