Ground Systems Group in 1982 contains morethan3 mil­ lion square feet of floor space, more than 12,000 employees andmore than 250 diverse de­ fense programs.

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Special 25th Anniversary Open House Publication May 16, 1982

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Welcome to GSG's 25th anniversary open house

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you and your family to GSG's Silver Anniversary Open House celebration. Much has been planned to make this Open

House, and your visit, a memorable one. We hope you enjoy this special day at Ground Systems Group.

A better motto could not have been chosen. GSG certainly possesses A Proud Past and A Bright Future. In the 25 years since Hughes Aircraft Company made the decision toopen a new facility inFullerton, Ground Systems Grouphas established itself as a world leader in a wide variety of important military defense systems that today make our communities and our country, and many other countries, safer places to live. It is indeed A Proud Past.

TheGroup is a leader in landandsearadars, in air defense command andcontrol programs, in naval tactical display systems, in advanced computer software tech­ nology, in underwater detection, and a long list of other advanced electronic equip­ ment and systems. The reason Ground Systems Group is a world leader in these areas is because it makes equipment andsystems betterthananyone else. And we make them better because of you, the hard-working GSG employee dedicated to performing your jobwell. Keepup the good work, and joinallof usat GSGin working towards A Bright Future.

Dr. Nicholas Yaru Sr. Vice President

Ground Systems Group in 1957 wasnothing more than a barren stretch of hills, awaiting groundbreaking. The growth of GSG began in early 1957 when Ground Systems Lab­ oratory, then located in Culver City, was elevated to Division status andmoved to Fullerton. In early 1958, Ground Sys­ tems was elevated to the Group status, and work on the permanent site was started.

Clare Carlson Sr. Vice President

and Group President

Clare Carlson, senior vice president andgroup president, left, and Dr. Nick Yaru, senior vice president, proudly display the banner honoring Ground Systems Group's 25 years in Fullerton. Today's Open House honors the

people andthe programs who have given Ground Systems Group A Proud Past and A Bright Future.

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Frescan or Frequehcy Scanning Radar - A major product that started Ground Systems Group off in the right direction was Fres­ can (also known as Frescanar}, the first Frequency Scanning Radar. It was the first completely integrated electronic system for accumulating three-dimensional data on all airborne targets. Frescan was first conceived at Hughes Aircraft Company in 1948. By 1950, the company was demonstrating that experimental an­ tennas designed for the Frescan technique could work. The first complete system was successfully tested in 1953, left. The first system, the shipboard AN/SPS-26, was delivered and installed in 1957. Today, technology derived from that first system is used in a wide variety of GSG· radars, ranging from the present shipboard version called AN/SPS-52C to the land-based Hughes Air De­ fense Radar (HADA) to the advanced AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ- 37 Firefinder weapon locating radars.

Land-based application of new Frescan radar - In the late 1950s, the revolutionary Frescan radar was first put into actual use as the AN/SPS-26 shipboard antenna. Soon after, however, the same technology was used in the AN/MPS-23 antenna, below, which was used as the detection radar for the AN/MSG-4 Missile Monitor system. The first Frescan AN/SPS-26 antenna was de­ livered and installed aboard a ship in 1957.

Missile Monitor among first GSG products in the field - Mis­ sile Monitor, above, also called AN/MSG-4, was one of the first GSG programs to be put into military operation when it was tested in Colorado by the U.S. Army in 1960 and soon after deployed in Europe. Missile Monitor was a forerunner of today's modern ADGE systems by automating the detection and tracking of air­ borne targets, and forwarding that information to air defense mis­ sile batteries. Missile Monitor was the first system in the world to eliminate the grease pencil plotting and voice-telling methods of providing information to defense units. Development of the system was initiated at Ground Systems when it was still a laboratory status and located in Culver City in the mid-1950s.

Hughes equipment getting presidential approval - President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, below, boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier in 1967 and received a demonstration of a GSG produced AN/SYA-1 Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) console. The AN/SYA-1 was the forerunner of the AN/UYA-4 and AN/UYQ-21 consoles, both of which are still under production atGSG. NTDS consoles were one of the first major programs for GSG, beginning in the late 1950s, and have been one of the longest continuing programs for the entire company.

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First Air Defense Ground Environment (ADGE) program - GSG's long and celebrated line of ADGE programs began with the Japanese BADGE program, right, in the early 1960s. The system used in BADGE was known as Tactical Air Weapons Control Sys­ tem (TAWCS), with development beginning in the late 1950s. GSG has now produced more than 20 ADGE programs around the world.

"Sure, it's got muscles, but can it type?" - No, although MOBOT could pour water froma pitcher into a glass andnot spill a drop. Developed in the 1950s by Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, MOBOT, below, was designed to substitute for hu­ mans in dangerous places, such as radioactive areas. It had dou­ ble-jointed shoulders, elbows and wrists, soft padded hands pro­ viding a light touch and TV camera eyes to allow a human opera­ tor to control it from a safe distance. Each arm could lift "150 pounds . Versions were designed for underseas work and on a tracked vehicle. MOBOT was part of GSG's product line.

Mobile air defense system called Vest Pocket - One of the first major programs of GSG, Vest Pocket, above, or MSQ-18, coordi­ nated Hawk and Nike guided missile batteries

First multiple firing of missiles from a ship

- In 1963, the Hughes revolutionary Frescan 3-D radar played an integral role in an impor­ tant Navy test. The guided missile carrier

U.S.S. Albany, below, outfitted with Frescan, was the first Navy vessel tosimultaneously fire

that were deployed in Europe NATO countries beginning in the late 1950s. Vest Pocket was also used in GSG's Missile Monitor system, which utilized Hughes' Frescanar radar.

three surface-to-air missiles. Among other ad­ vanced features, Frescan was the first ship­ board radar to electronically compensate for the pitch and roll of the ship, eliminating the requirement for heavy mechanical stabilizing equipment.

Big ears pointed to the sky - GSG produced the Mark 1B satellite communications dish antennas, above. These dishes were deployed around the world at ground stations. These an­ tennas allowed controllers in the United States to track, control and communicate with satellites orbiting the earth. The antennas were produced in the 1960s and are still used today.

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Air defense on a lonely hill in Spain - Long-range radars housed inside radomes pro- vide early warning detection for Combat Grande, right, the Spanish Air Defense Ground Environment (ADGE) program developed by GSG's Systems Division in themid-1970s. This was one of many programs that GSG has developed and built as part of consortiums with firms of countries around the world.

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Volunteer labor builds GSG employee park - With man­ agement providing land, an access road and some mate­ rials, Simpson Park on GSG's site was built by volunteer labor from the Hughes Fuller­ ton Employees· Association in 1960, left.

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A road built for uncomfortable rides? - That's what the road on GSG's Munson Course was built for. Originally built as an Army facility with a dirt road, water basin and raintest chamber in 1958, the Munson Course wasimproved by Hughes Aircraft Company to provide a wide range of vehicle test conditions. It was rededicated in 1967 and has been operated by GSG ever since.

The Blue Room for demonstrations in 1963 - Used by GSG personnel to demonstrate advanced products to customers and other interested persons, the Blue Room, above, showed off the newest air defense display consoles and top-of-the-line large screen displays.

The Systems Conference Center for demonstrations in 1982

- Housed in the basement of Building 618, the Center, right, demonstrates the latest technological advances. In a special session, a standard HMD-22 radar display console identical to those used in the U.S. Joint Surveillance System was set up to operate in front of a HDP-4000 large screen display.

Checking to be sure the test is right - Technicians at GSG's low frequency shock and vibration laboratory run a test on military equipment in 1960. The lab, which still operates, was the largest civilian laboratory of its type in the world. The lab could simulate any vehicular or shipboard motion in order to test equipment.

The lab is leased to other firms to conduct their own tests. Helicopter transportable electronic

air defense system - In 1960, the

U.S. Marines ordered the ANJTSQ-38 of Airtac from GSG. It was a helicopter transportable version of AN/MSQ-18, the land-based truck-transported ver-

UYA-4 - A proven GSG product - Technicians in GSG's manufactur ing area check a UYA-4 Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) console. GSG's DataProcessing Products Division has delivered more than 2,000 of the con-

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GSG technology protecting Europe - Hughes Aircraft Company led an international team todevelop NADGE, above, the NATO Air Defense Ground Environment system to pro­ tect much of Europe. Begun in the mid-1960s, NADGE is a shared system that coordinates

air defense radars and command centers through nearly all the NATO countries. GSG is still active with NADGE today, through the AEGIS program which integrates the airborne E-3A radar information with the existing ground-based NADGE centers.

One of the world's most advanced radars - The AN/TPQ-37 Weapon Locating Radar, below, the larger of the two GSG Fire­ finder radars, pinpoints enemy artillary and mortar projectiles in

flight and backplots their paths to determine the locations of the

originating weapons. Firefinders do this in a matter of seconds.

Development of the Firefinder radars began in the early 1970s, and GSG today has orders for more than 200 of the systems.

Latest offspring of Frescan radar - The Hughes Air Defense Radar (HADR), below, is a new generation long-range, three­ dimensional radar using some technology introduced in the mid- 1950s with the Frescan radar. Improvements in HADR, however, make it one of the most advanced radars available in the world today. It is capable of performing all civilian air traffic control func­ tions as well as military air defense functions.

on of electronic air defense called est Pocket. In the Airtac configura­ Dn, the equipment was housed in 1elters that were easily deployed by elicopters.

::>les to navies around the world. The

:msole receives radar and other de­ ction information and forwards tar­ eting information to defensive sys­

ims. The program started in the early

Reliable radio communica­

960s and is still going strong today.

tions with AN/PRC-104 -A

Swedish soldier, left, uses a Manpack radio during winter exercises. The AN/PRC-104 is one of a series of radios, in manpack and vehicle­ mounted styles, to be pro­ ducedduringthepast 20years by GSG. The Communications and Radar Division has de­ livered more than 5,000 radios to the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Navy and the Swedish Army.

Putting the artistry in art services - Earl Skonberg, left, head of GSG's Art Serv­ ices Department, aids graphic artist Ron Purdy in putting on the finishing touches, right, of one of hundreds of wall dis­ plays the department has pro­ duced. As a primary service to the marketing interests of GSG, the talented art services team of professionals has pro­ duced a wide variety of mate­ rials that have been exhibited around the world.

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Outfitting a military classroom - GSG has become a leader in the development of training equipment used for military purposes. Instead of training Firefinder radar operators in the bat­ tlefield, where inexperienced troops and equipment are vulnerable, the Army uses

computer-operated classroom trainers, or simulators, above, to properly train troops. A 1980s product of GSG's Engineering Services and Support Division, the Firefinder Trainer does a better and cheaper job of training operators than using the actual equipment.

Giving the U.S. and Canada better air defense - The Joint Surveillance System, above, jointly uses civilian airport radars and military radars to provide detection of air invaders for the United States and Canada. This air defense ground environment (ADGE) project is being developed by Systems Division and will be fully operational by the mid-1980s.

"OKlittle box, tell me where I am" -Anditwill. The Position Location Reporting System (PLRS), above, developed and produced by GSG's Communications and Radar Division, uses an intricate computerized communications system to tell battlefield soldiers and mobile units where they and others are located. PLRS is a GSG product of the 1970s and 1980s.

Jam-free, secure communications at the push of a button - A U.S. Air Force technician oper­ ates a Hughes-built Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) Class 1 terminal. Called a HIT (Hughes Improved Terminal), the terminal uses time division and spread spectrum techniques to provide voice and digital communi­ cations that is difficult for an enemy to stop.

Effective front-line battlefield communica­ tions - Defenders, such as this surface-to-air missile Redeye team, above, will receive battle information through terminals tied into the PLRS/JTIDS Hybrid system. That system uses PLRS and JTIDS to provide a complete and reli­ able battlefield communications method. It is a GSG product of the 1980s.

First HADA system installed in Germany - The first Hughes Air Defense Radar (HADA) antenna to be installed for a cus­ tomer, below, gets lifted into place in the Federal Republic of Germanyearlier this year.

New Navy ship detection capabilities - GSG is developing a new sonar device that a ship will tow behind it, above. That device makes possible the detection and classifica­ tion of ocean targets for surveillance purposes

New antisubmarine torpedo of the U.S. Navy - GSG is putting new guidance and con tro l systems in existing submarine launched heavy torpedoes, below. Under the

and works with both shipboard and land-based equipment. The passive system permits greater detection without generating sound signals that would reveal the ship's position. A product of the 1980s.

MK-48 Advanced Capabilities program, mem­ bers of the Data Processing Products Division are improving the torpedo so that it will be able to perform into the 1990s.

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Now you see it, now you don't - Through an elaborate proc­

REAL TARGET

ELECTRONIC ttTARGET"

ess, GSG's SLQ/17 electronic countermeasures system, left, fools attacking enemy missiles intobelieving a ship is at a location where it really isn't. Electronically, the system hides the real ship and makes a "ghost" ship miles away. The missile is fooled and attacks the false "ghost" ship. Produced by Communications and Radar Division, the program began in 1970.

Information at the touch of a finger - Display consoles for GSG's new product line, Command and Control Information Sys­ tems (CCIS), below, will provide military commanders with up-to­ date information on the availability of resources such as fighter aircraft or warehoused ammunition. The HMD-8000 display con­ soles will provide information in seven colors and will operate through the use of conventional keyboards and new touch-screen techniques. GSG's Systems Division received the world's first ad­ vanced system production contract from Norway and Denmark in late 1981.

Low Altitude Surveillance Radar (LASR) - developed from technology first applied in the A new mobile radar desianed to detect low flv- Firefinder weaoon locatina radars. Under de-

ing aircraft and missiles at short distances, velopment in the Communications and Radar LASR, above, and its larger counterpart Vari- Division, both LASR and VSTAR are GSG able Search and Track Radar (VSTAR) are radars of the 1980s.

Best defense to low flying threats - The small rectangular antenna near the top of the ship's mast, above, is GSG's Im­ proved Point Defenseffarget Acquisition System (IPD/TAS) an­ tenna. It provides ships with a complimentary self-defense capa­ bility against low flying threats such as cruise missiles. It is a 1970s and 1980s product of the Communications and Radar Divi­ sion.

Smiles behind NATO's new air defense shield - All these people are smiling, left, because they are part of GSG's NATO Airborne Early Warning Ground Integration System (AEGIS) test team. In late 1981, this team success­ fully processed radar informa­ tion received from an early warning E-3A aircraft flying overthe Pacific Oceanandput that information on radar screens in the basement of Building 618. It was the first demonstration of NATO's pro­ gramtotiein its E-3A aircraft to existing equipment stationed in Europe. The program is ex­ pected to be fully operational by the mid 1980s.

Afilecabinet forest to house the contracts - Division 10 secretary Debra Archuleta, left, sifts through the mass of cabinets, locks anddrawers to find the one document she is looking for. The hundreds of projects awarded to GSG dur­ ing the past 25 years have re­ quired hundreds of cabinet drawers just to store the bulky contracts. And allmust be well organized in order to be found quickly, should a question come up about a specific pro­ ject or contract.

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Manufacturing a big part of GSG history

In 1957, the first year of Ground Systems Group, there were about 3,000 employees. Toda y, there are about 12,000 employees at GSG, and 430 of those original em­

By Dave Hamilton

The growth of Ground Systems Group's Manufacturin g Division can be measured by one of several

Hughes has been a pretty good place to work," he concluded.

Eva Redden joined Hughes as an assembler in 1957. Currently per­

ployees are still here today. This special GSG 25th Anniver­

sary Open House publication is dedicated to those dedi­ cated 430. They are:

yardsticks. Occupying three ­ quarters of a million square feet and employing more than 4,300 men and women, it is now the company's lar gest division.

The most accurate measure, though, comes in the reflections of two individuals who joined the Group when it started in Fuller­ ton- 25 years ago.

Dick Roth started in Manufac­ turing as Chief of the Cost Esti­ mating department.

' ' Manufa c turi ng began in a number of leased buildings in downtown FuJJer ton in 1957,'' Roth said . '· producing the AN/ SPS-29 and AN/SPS-32/33, fore­ runners of today'sshipboard radar, the AN/SPS-52. ''

Movi ng to i ts present hom e (Buildin gs 607, 608 and 609) in 1970, marked a major milesto ne for the divi sio n , Dick believes. Another milestone was the simul­ taneous initiation of six radar pro­ jects in the period l976 to 1978.

''TheGroup was now producing a dozen radar systems every month. but the growth was steady, in a stable and orde rly fashion.

forming final inspection on the

Firefinder radars. Eva estimat es that there might be onlyone or two product Jine s she has not worked on in the past 25 years.

' 'Hughes has been a steady em­ ployer,'' Evasaid, "and when you raise a family alone, you need that. I started out as a handicapped em­ ployee. Hughes hired me when a lot of co mpa nies wouldn't hire handicapped workers.' '

At55 years of age, Eva opted for surgica l solution to her handicap, rather than an early retirement. Her hip was replaced with a polye thy­ lene join tand steel ball so that there is now onJy a three-quarter inch difference in her legs.

' 'I was back at my old job with no restric tio ns, s ix months after surgery," Eva said. " That was five years ago. Hughes respects the handicapped individual and tries to help them. They arc good to their employees. ' '

Dave Hamilton is associate editor <f Mami/acturing Outlook , the Division I5 employee newslet­ ter.

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GSG & unions: Good

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By Leslie Ridgeway

Ground Systems Group can boast of a long and successful rela­ tionship with all four labor unions that have represented group em­ ployees since the founding days.

Of the 12.000 groupemployees, more than 3,200 are members of labor unio ns . With more than 3,000 members. the largest GSG labor union is the Electronic and

Space Technicians (EAST) Local 1553. Other unions are the l ntema­ tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2295. the American Federation of Guards Local I, and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501.

Grady Jones, an expeditor in the project stores area in Building 601 and a member of EAST. feels that both the company and the union have made a special effort to reach solutions that please both side s . Jones, whohas been with GSG and EAST for 25 years, commends both sides for having a good atti­ tude toward each other.

According to Don Garrigan, union relations at GSG arc as good or better than those at other engi­ neering firms. Garrigan, a member of EAST and a test equipme nt fab­ rication technic ian for GSG for 10 years, says he has observed fair bargaining between the union and company during the time he's been here.

Catherine ''Bunny" Blevens, a test technician in the automatic cir­ cuit analysis area, says Hughes Aircraft Company is a good place to work. She's found relations to be pleasant between the company and the union. observing the situa­ tion firsthand as a shop steward.

Acting as an inte rface between supervision and employees, Ms. Bleve ns says supervision is more than willing to help iron out differ­ ences and improve working condi­ tions.

Leslie Ridgeway is a member of 1he GSG Mark ering Aids Depan­ menl.

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This specia l Ground Systems Group publication was printed by the GSG 1982 Open House Committee, under the chair­ manship of Jack Pretty. director of administration and mate­ rial. and produced by the GSG Public Relations Department, managed by Bascom Jones. For more copies of this May 16, 1982 publication, please contact the GSG Public Relations Department in Bldg. 618, MIS H420 , phone number 732- 4631. EDITORS - Mike Dileo , Dan Reeder and Jack Wilson. CONTRIBUTORS- Dave Hamilton, Mike Hudgen s, Barbara Hugh, Leslie Ridgeway and Gary Panton . Special Thanks to Frank Britton , Jamie Clark, Stan Cutter, Barbara Forte. Lynda Green, Mike O'Brien and Roland Winters.

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U.S. Marines ordered the AN/TSQ-38 of Airtac from GSG. It was a helicopter transportable version of AN/MSQ-18, the land-based truck-transported ver-

UYA-4 - A proven GSG product - Technicians in GSG's manufacturing area check a UYA-4 Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) console. GSG's Data Processing Products Division has delivered more than 2,000 of the con-

sion of electronic air defense called Vest Pocket. In the Airtac configura­ tion, the equipment was housed in shelters that were easily deployed by helicopters.

soles to navies around the world. The console receives radar and other de­ tection information and forwards tar­ geting information to defensive sys­ tems. The program started in the early 1960s and is still going strong today.