Receiving approval 10 days later, the Air Force directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction.

It assumed coverage responsibilities formerly held by the temporary Lashup Radar Network site at Edwards Air Force Base (L-40).

[clarification needed] During 1961 Boron AFS joined the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, feeding data to DC-17 at Norton Air Force Base, California.

A separate Ground Air Transmit Receive (GATR) site was located 3.5 miles NNW of the main site to provide some isolation from the high-powered RF energy from the search radar systems for the GATR's HF/VHF/UHF voice and data air-to-ground communications.

GATR sites used voice communications via AN/GRT-3[2] transmitters and AN/GRR-7[3] receivers to guide F-106 Delta Dart and other suitably-equipped intercept aircraft to airborne targets.

In addition to the defense mission, Boron AFS became a joint-use facility with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use in tracking aircraft in the Los Angeles sector.

In addition to the main facility, Boron operated these AN/FPS-14 gap-filler sites: Over the years, the equipment at the station was upgraded or modified to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the information gathered by the radars.