Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam (NCTS Guam) is a
United States Navy
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communications facility on the U.S. territory of
Guam
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. It is located on the
Naval Base Guam North Finegayan Telecommunications Site along
Guam Highway 3 in
Dededo, on the northwest coast of the island.
NCTS Guam is under the
United States Tenth Fleet's
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) and under the installation management authority of
Joint Region Marianas. It has been variously referred to as Naval Communications Station Guam (NCS Guam), NCS or NCTS Finegayan, and North Finegayan.
NCTS Guam provides communications support in the
areas of responsibility for the U.S.
Third
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (di ...
,
Fifth, and
Seventh Fleets.
History
The facility dates back to 1944, immediately after the
1944 Battle of Guam. It was previously designated Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Western Pacific (NCTAMS WESTPAC), before those responsibilities were merged with NCTAMS EASTPAC to form NCTAMS PAC in
Honolulu
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in 2000, and the Guam facility was redesignated a NCTS.
NCTS Guam previously managed the Navy housing located at the separated but nearby South Finegayan military property.
In 2020,
Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, located adjacent to NCTS Guam, was activated amid its construction.
Base
Assets at NCTS Guam include or included:
* The Guam Remote Ground Terminal, one of three ground terminals of the
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, though controlled remotely by the White Sands Ground Terminal at
White Sands Missile Range
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in
New Mexico
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.
* A contingency site for the Common User Digital Information Exchange System in case of congestion with the NCTAMS PAC or NCTAMS EURCENT, or a failure of the Naval Communications Processing and Routing System.
* One of the 14
Cold War
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-era Navy
AN/FRD-10 circular "
Wullenweber"
antenna arrays, shut down in 1999.
The coastline of NCTS Guam includes the
NRHP-listed Haputo Beach Site,
which lies within the Navy's Haputo Ecological Reserve.
See also
*
US military installations in Guam
References
External links
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Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam
Dededo, Guam
Military installations of the United States in Guam
United States Navy installations
1944 establishments in Guam
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