[5] Renamed Griffiss Air Force Base on 23 Jan 1948[5], the World War II installation's buildings were used as post-war offices and laboratories, e.g., for testing units that arrived beginning in 1948 from Pennsylvania's Middletown Air Depot[4] (Griffiss had the "2 Msl Trpt Sq" 26 Jan 48-3 Sep 48.

[5] The entire Watson Laboratories, which was acquiring the "state-of-the-art" Bendix AN/FPS-3 Radar for Air Defense Command, transferred to Griffiss[7] from Camp Coles NJ,[8] from 6 November 1950 until 2 April 1951, the date Griffiss AFB transferred to Air Research and Development Command.

[5] The "Rome Air Development Center" headquarters officially opened on June 12, 1951, with the personnel of the headquarters for the 2751st Wing and 3171st & 3151st groups, which were "discontinued"[4]—the 6530th Air Base Wing with subordinate units, e.g., Maintenance and Support Group, activated on the same date for support through August/November 1952.

)[13] A prototype AN/FPS-43 BMEWS radar[14] completed at Trinidad in 1958 went operational on February 4, 1959, the date of an Atlas IIB firing from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 11[15] (lunar reflection was tested January–June 1960.

[5] A "60-foot-diameter" antenna at the Floyd site built by RADC "particularly to communicate with ECHO II" was dedicated on 30 August 1963.

)[citation needed] In the 1970s War On Drugs, RADC COMPASS TRIP research investigated "multispectral reconnaissance techniques to locate opium poppy fields".

[4] By December 1977 RADC had developed[4] the 322 watt "solid state transmitter and receiver module"[22] while "responsible for [PAVE PAWS] design, fabrication installation, integration test, and evaluation" (through 1980).