Talk:Strategic Automated Command and Control System

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I was on active duty in the US Air Force from December 1971 through January 1981. My first assignment was as a Computer Systems Maintenance Technician AFSC 305x4A assigned to DPC Maintenance, 33rd Communications Squadron, March AFB, CA where I was part of the team of technicians that kept DPC 3 operational 24/7/365 except for 8 hours of planned preventive maintenance every three days. I am in the process of acquiring comprehensive reference materials covering this important part of USAF history which seems to be sadly lacking on Wikipedia and on the internet in general - the documenting of military systems that don't directly involve aircraft or flying, but were every bit as important to the successfull carrying out of the Air Force Mission.
Chuckharding 08:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm active duty USAF and currently a programmer assigned to the 55th Strategic Communications Squadron at Offutt AFB, NE. Our sole mission in our programming shop is the upkeep and maintenance of the SACCS software.

SACCS stands for Strategic Automated Command and Control System. SAC no longer exists.

See Also:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/saccs.htm

It might now, but the one I was writing about, under the original Project 456L, was the SAC Automated Command and Control System. That's what it said on the T.O.s we used to maintain it. Also, please sign and date your comments by placing 4 tilde characters '~' after your entry. Thanks. — ChardingLLNL (talk) 08:02, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was part of the 2052 Comm Group at Keesler AFB in 1985. I was 305x4E, so I ended up being assigned to maintain the 465L training computer lab ("E"s were generic go-anywhere shreds). I can say for certain that the first S was for Strategic Air Command, whatever it was later changed to. What I don't understand in this article is that it says it was replaced by WWMCCS. More directly, as I recall, it was replaced by the SACDIN system (standing for Strategic Air Command Digital Information Network, as I recall). We received the SACDIN replacement sometime around 1987 (and I got the pleasure of taking a hacksaw to the cables of the 465L lab). I was reassigned soon after, so I don't remember too many details of it other than it used the same CRTs that were retrofitted to the SACCS RCCs, had 8" floppy drives and an Autovon compatible phone, and had "emissions secure and hardened" enclosures. Since I have no training material left to refer to, does anyone have any reference for SACDIN? Murasaki66 (talk) 22:11, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was at March AFB, 15th AF Headquarters when DPC3 was decommissioned. At the time we were told that the data processing function was being replaced by WWMCCS. As a matter of fact, I was the one that ran the data scrubbing programs that overwrote the disk file, drums, and memory to declassify the machine. ChardingLLNL (talk) 08:02, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]