[8] Radar station construction had begun by September 22, 1959,[10] and by the end of 1959, Ft Heath was designated to be a Category 1a NORAD Control Center with the AN/GPA-37 to have the data processing computer for the SAGE TDDL to/from equipped interceptors.

[11] However, since Ft Heath ADDC operation would have only been used for a few months until SAGE DC-02 had ground-controlled interception capability, the AN/GPA-37 installation was never completed.

[citation needed] For the SAGE/Missile Master test program, NORAD requested an abbreviated AN/FSG-1 "be made available…in the Boston area by 1 Ju.l.y 1959" and during Ft Heath bunker construction, 5 of 7 Glenn L. Martin pallets of FSG-1 equipment were assembled at the nearby Fort Banks[12] for testing with the Experimental SAGE Subsector (XD-1 prototype AN/FSQ-7 at Lexington, Massachusetts) for the Second Phase NORAD SAGE/Missile Master test (September 1959) to assess the Automatic Targeting and Battery Evaluation algorithm.

Instead of an underground decontamination water supply beneath the AAOC as with the nominal bunker plan,[16] the Army Corps of Engineers (New England District)[citation needed] had exterior emergency water tanks built in addition to a 210,000 gallon freshwater tank.

The site of the former radar station now includes a small park and a complex of large apartment buildings.