Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific ( NCTAMS PAC ) provides operational direction and management to all Pacific Naval Telecommunication System users . In addition to this function , NCTAMSPAC manages , operates , and maintains Defense Communication System and Naval Telecommunication System assets , and offers a full range of ADP and information resource services , maintenance and repair , and communication / electronic and Defense Message System coordination to the United States Navy and other United States Department of Defense ( DoD ) activities in the Pacific . History . Before World War II . In May 1888 , the United States established a coaling station to service the vessels of the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii . King David Kalākaua had granted the U . S . the exclusive rights to enter and develop the area earlier that year . The U . S . Naval Radio Station in the Pearl Harbor area , the first government station in the islands , began operations on October 1 , 1906 . This radio station continued its operation until its deactivation in 1916 . On March 3 , 1915 , the United States Congress passed an Appropriations Act that authorized $ 400 , 000 for the construction of a high - powered , long distance radio station at Pearl Harbor . In 1916 , this new station , NPM , began operations at Hospital Point , Pearl Harbor . At 0230 on the morning of September 20 , 1916 , Captain Clark , the first Commandant of the 14th Naval District , sent the following message from the NPM to the Naval Radio Station , Long Beach , California : " SECRETARY OF THE NAVY , WASHINGTON , D . C . I HAVE THE HONOR TO SEND YOU THE FIRST THROUGH MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON , D . C . , FROM PEARL HARBOR , HAWAII RADIO STATION , AND CAN REPORT SATISFACTORY PROGRESS OF THE PLANT . GEORGE R . CLARK SENDS . " A congratulatory message from the Secretary of the Navy arrived 33 minutes later . During the years following World War I , the naval activities in the Pearl Harbor area continued to expand . It soon became obvious that the future expansion of the radio station facilities in the area would not be practical . In 1933 , a tract of land at Lualualei was set aside by the territory of Hawaii for use by the U . S . Navy . Seven self - supporting steel towers were erected to a height of at this new site for an antenna system for long wave radio transmitting . The site was officially activated in 1936 , and by 1941 twelve transmitters were in operation . World War II . With the arrival of the major United States Pacific Fleet units at Pearl Harbor naval base in 1939 , it became increasingly clear that a new receiver and control station was needed . Therefore , a secluded spot at Wahiawa , some north of Pearl Harbor , was chosen and purchased by the Navy for approximately one million dollars . Construction began on the of land in 1940 and was scheduled to be completed in 1942 . During that time , the station at Wahiawa was considered the most important of a number of Naval Radio and Air Stations being constructed as a part of a general expansion program . On December 7 , 1941 , a few minutes before 0800 , several squadrons of Japanese aircraft passed over the Lualualei Transmitter Site on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor . The major Naval Radio Stations were strafed by these planes as they passed over , but casualties among the communications personnel were light ; however , the radio stations themselves proved highly vulnerable to attack . Lualualei was located only from the shoreline and received its power over exposed land lines from the Hawaiian Electric Company , away . The radio facility at Wailupe , also along the seacoast , was deemed unprotectable . So , on the morning of December 10 , it was decided to have all of the equipment at Wailupe moved to the new site at Wahiawa . This new site was an excellent receiving area and the best - protected radio station on the island . Men worked day and night to transfer operations to Wahiawa and on December 17 the relocation was completed without the slightest interruption in communications service . This location became known as the Naval Radio Station , Wahiawa . Shortly thereafter , the Security Group Unit was also moved from Heeia to Wahiawa . To improve naval communications in the Pacific area , a Communications Security Unit ( COMSEC ) was established at Wahiawa in 1942 under the management and control of the Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) . Their purpose was to assist in a program of cryptographic security , message traffic control and message traffic analysis . It became apparent after the war that the naval communication facilities in Hawaii could never revert to their small pre - war status , but would have to continue in the role of " big business . " After World War II . Shortly after the war , a committee was appointed by the CNO to make a survey of the facilities at Wahiawa and to make the appropriate recommendations concerning the location of the central point of radio communications . The committee decided that the central point should return to Pearl Harbor and that Wahiawa be relegated to a receiver site . However , in 1956 , it was decided that insufficient space existed in the Pearl Harbor area to permit the continued expansion of communications facilities on Oahu . In addition , the various components were scattered throughout the Pearl Harbor complex which made the operation highly uneconomic and difficult to supervise . It was decided to relocate the central point back to the Wahiawa site . Because the requirements for rapid communications from the Department of the Navy to the fleet operational commanders had changed , the CNO authorized the activation of an additional teletypewriter system . This system , known as HICOM , was activated in 1957 and operated parallel to the existing communications channels . Later , the Commander in Chief , U . S . Pacific Fleet ( CINCPACFLT ) , established an additional parallel circuit known as the " Atomic Strike Coordinator Circuit . " It was determined that even more rapid communications would be necessary . Therefore , a new communications net , known as the " Naval Operation Net " was formed in 1959 . At the same time , the Navy decided that the stations at Haiku and Heeia were no longer needed . The station at Heeia was turned over to the Marine corps Air Station at Kaneohe , while the Haiku station was placed in a non - operational status . The communication stations on Oahu underwent a consolidation in 1967 . The message centers at Pearl Harbor ( NAVSHIPYD ) , Makalapa ( CINCPACFLT ) , Camp Smith ( CINCPAC ) , Moanalua ( FLEWEACEN ) , Secure Voice Pearl Harbor , and Consolidated Maintenance came under an Officer - in - Charge , which was known as NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor . NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor was a department of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu who exercised administrative and operational control . The message center at Barbers Point also came under the control of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu at the same time . The Makalapa Local Digital Message Exchange ( LDMX ) was activated in March 1973 by Vice Admiral G . C . Talle , Deputy CINCPACFLT . The system ' s activation marked a significant step forward by improving writer - to - reader speed of service , message formatting , routing indicator assignment , and message recall for CINCPACFLT . In September 1977 , the NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor was disestablished and NTCC Camp Smith , NTCC Makalapa , NTCC Pearl Harbor , Secure Voice , and Consolidated Maintenance became separate departments of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu . Concurrently , NTCC Moanalua was disestablished and the communication functions were turned over to the Fleet Weather Center . In December 1977 , NTCC Pearl Harbor was disestablished and absorbed into NTCC Makalapa in an ongoing effort to consolidate communications on Oahu . Subsequently , in February 1978 , NTCC Makalapa , located in the basement of the CINCPACFLT headquarters building at Makalapa , became officially known as NTCC Pearl Harbor . The Commanding Officer of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu transmitted the first message , via the LDMX system , in a ceremony marking the transformation of the CINCPAC Telecommunications Center at Camp H . M . Smith from Joint operation to Navy management in September 1973 . In April 1976 , the Naval Communications Station Honolulu was officially renamed Naval Communication Area Master Station , Eastern Pacific ( NAVCAMS EASTPAC ) . On February 18 , 1977 , the Commanding Officer at NAVCAMS EASTPAC officially dedicated the new Super High Frequency ( SHF ) Satellite Facility at Wahiawa , the largest such facility of its kind . Concurrently , the Navy ' s Satellite Facility at Helemano was deactivated . NTCC Ford Island became a department of NAVCAMS EASTPAC in October 1983 . On December 1 , 1990 , NAVCAMS EASTPAC and NARDAC Pearl Harbor merged to form the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station , Eastern Pacific ( NCTAMS EASTPAC ) . This merger took place to ensure that the Navy could meet the challenges of technological changes and advances . The command was again renamed on October 20 , 1997 . The new name , Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station , Pacific , better reflected the command ' s regional operating area . Facts . Rear Admiral ( retired ) Lillian E . Fishburne was the commanding officer of NCTAMSPAC when she was appointed by President of the United States Bill Clinton to the rank of Rear Admiral .