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1. The long title of this plan is National Reconnaissance Office CoMmunications Plan 01, the short title is NROCP 01. Both Titles are classified 

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2. This plan is effective upon receipt. 

3. The office of origin is Communications Branch of the National Reconnaissance Office Staff. 

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b. Transportation, storing, safeguarding and accounting of this plan 

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Basic Plan 1/3 

Annex A Concept of Operations A-1/A-3 

Annex B Reconnaissance Communications B 1 /B-4 

Annex C Weather Communications C-1/C-3 

Annex D Personnel D-1/D-2 

Annex X Distribution X-1/X-2 

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TASK ORGANIZATIONS: 

AWS Hqs SAC 

Program Director B, NRO AFCS 

Hqs USAF 

1. SITUATION. Elements of the Strategic Air Command, Air Weather 

Service and Air Force Communications Service located at Offutt Air Force 

Base provide essential support to, and in some instances participate in, 

operational programs conducted by the National Reconnaissance Office. 

The execution of this support or participation requires the extension to 

Offutt Air Force Base of the National Reconnaissance Office BYEMAN 

Communications Network. 

2. MISSION. To provide for the installation, operation and maintenance 

of facilities of the National Reconnaissance Office communications network 

at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. 

3. EXECUTIONS: 

a. Concept of Operations: Refer to Annex A. 

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b. Responsibilities of Task Organizations: Task organizations are 

responsible for satisfying their responsibilities assigned in the annexes 

to this plan. 

c. Coordinating Instructions: All matters related to the NRO communications function at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, will be coordinated by the task organizations with the NRO Staff Office and, where 

applicable, with Director, Program B, National Reconnaissance Office. 

4. ADMINISTRATION AND LOGISTICS. 

a. Department of Air Force communications personnel assigned to 

National Reconnaissance Office Communications facilities at Offutt Air 

Force Base, Nebraska, will receive administrative and logistical support 

from Strategic Air Command. 

b. Central Intelligence Agency communications personnel assigned to 

National Reconnaissance Office communications facilities at Offutt Air 

Force Base, Nebraska will receive administrative and logistical support 

from the Director, Program B, National Reconnaissance Office. 

5. COMMAND. 

a. The senior Strategic Air Command communicator will report 

directly to the NRO Staff Office on all matters related to the NRO communications facilities at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. 

b. The senior Central Intelligence Agency communicator will report 

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Annexes 

A - Concept of Operations 

B - Reconnaissance Communications 

C - Weather Communications 

D - Personnel 

X - Distribution 

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1. GENERAL. The National Reconnaissance Office Communications 

facilities at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, will provide direct communications links from Offutt to the Director, National Reconnaissance 

Office and his staff, Program Director B and his staff, and other organizations supporting the National Reconnaissance Office and Strategic Air 

Command as required. Communications relay service will also be provided 

to other elements of the National Reconnaissance Office not having direct 

communications links to Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The requirement for communications relay service to elements not listed in the 

annexes to this plan will require coordination with the operators of the 

relay centers involved prior to initiation of the relay service. 

2. OPERATIONAL FACILITIES, Due to the nature of the requirements 

involved, the National Reconnaissance Office communications facilities 

will be housed in two separate buildings at Offutt Air Force Base. These 

locations are the hqs building of the Strategic Air Command and building D 

containing the AWS Special Projects Division of the Global Weather Central. 

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a. Headquarters Building, SAC. This location will have a data communications facility and a teletype relay center providing Reconnaissance 

Communications. See Annex B. 

b. Building D. This location will have a communications center providing teletype, facsimile, and data communications. See Annex C. 

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1. GENERAL: A teletype facility will be established within or adjacent to 

the Strategic Reconnaissance Center. A data communications facility (now 

installed) will be operated in G wing of the headquarters SAC building. 

These two facilities will provide support for all NRO Program Directors, 

all NRO projects, and SAC activities associated with the NRO. 

2. RESPONSIBILITIES: 

a. Strategic Air Command. 

(1) Strategic Air Command is designated as the operating agency. 

The senior SAC communicator assigned is responsible for coordinating 

with the designated representatives of the NRO Staff Office, Strategic 

Air Command and AWS on all matters regarding operation of Reconnalssa.nce Communications facilities. 

(2) The Strategic Air Command is responsible for providing 

1000 square feet of floor space and civil engineering support for the NRO 

communications facility in the Strategic Reconnaissance Center. 

b. Hqs USAF: Hqs USAF/AFOCCD is responsible for initiating implementation action thru normal military channels for circuits, equipment, and 

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3. OPERATIONAL CONCEPT: 

a. The Reconnaissance Center teletype.facility will have direct circuits 

to the Pentagon, Edwards AFB, Wright-Patterson AFB, Global Weather 

Center, National Security Agency, Program Director B, SAC SSO, 4080 SRW 

and Beale AFB (see attachment one to this annex). The facility will be 

operated 24 hours daily, 7 days per week. 

(1) The majority of the message traffic handled by the Reconnaissance 

Center teletype facility will be compartmented by project classification and 

addressed to or originated by the staff section responsible for that project 

(Director of Operations, GWC, or Director of Intelligence). Designated 

representatives of these sections will be the only personnel authorized to 

send or receive messages via this facility. 

b. The data communications facility in G wing of the SAC Headquarters 

building will be operated 24 hours daily during periods of mission activity. 

The facility will be on an on-call basis, with personnel in the Reconnaissance 

teletype facility available to activate the data facility as required. The data 

communications facility will have direct circuits to Sunnyvale, Pentagon, 

National Security Agency, Beale Air Force Base and the Global Weather 

Center (see attachment two to this annex). 

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d. Message-s originated for transmission via the NRO communications 

network will use the "cable address" format. The procedures of AFM 

10-2 do not apply. 

X. 

(1) Normally only BYEMAN classified messages will be handled via the 

NRO Communications network. In the case of the SR-71 and YF-12A 

programs, non-BYEMAN messages addressed to NRO sponsored Special 

Project Offices will be accepted by the NRO Communications network. 

(2) The NRO Communications network does not have an official relationship with the Joint Reconnaissance Center of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 

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1. GENERAL. A communications facility having teletype, data and facsimile transmission capabilities will be installed in building D, Offutt AFB. 

2. RESPONSIBILITIES: 

a. Director, Program B, is designated as the operating agency and is 

responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the weather communications facility. 

b. AWS is responsible for planning the necessary power, space and.air 

conditioning for the Weather Communications facility. 

3. OPERATIONAL CONCEPT: 

a. The weather communications center will have direct circuits to the 

locations shown on attachment one to this annex. Access to locations not 

shown on attachment one will be by circuit patching or relay thru NRO 

relay centers. 

b. Should the volume of traffic passed by relay or patching service 

increase to the point that the required speed of service cannot be maintained 

then direct communications to the locations concerned will be established. 

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1. GENERAL. This annex concerns only those personnel requiring 

military administrative and logistical support. 

2. ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT. All military communications personnel 

in the National Reconnaissance Office communications network at Offutt 

Air Force Ease, Nebraska, will be assigned to the Strategic Air Command. 

Personnel records, leaves and other administrative matters will be the 

responsibility of SAC. Supply and communications maintenance will be 

provided by SAC. 

3. MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS. The initial manpower spaces for the 

Reconnaissance Center teletype and data communications facilities will 

be provided by 'isfq AFCS, Scott Air Force Ease, Illinois. 

4. PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS. The initial personnel requirement for 

the Reconnaissance Center teletype and data communications facilities is 

one officer, AFSC 3034; one SMSGT (E-8); two 1VISGTs (E-7); three TSGTs 

(E-6); two SSGTs (E-5); and nine A1C (E-4). 

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