[4] Initially, the United States Army served as the executive agent for the administration and management of the center on behalf of the Department of Defense.

In 1982, the center was restored its original name and reverted to Department of Defense control with the Army as the executive agent for administration on behalf of the National Communications System (NCS).

[1] Under the NCS (dissolved and functions transferred to the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2012[5]), the center is mandated to provide communication for the federal government under any circumstances, including a nuclear attack.

[8][9] In 1989, a WTC spokesperson acknowledged that the stations "are operated ... to communicate with embassies, and for espionage transmissions" to American intelligence agents in Cuba and Central America.

[10] In 1998, laboratories at WTC were reported to produce concealed radio equipment used to send and receive communications, typically in the form of furniture items.

[1][14][15] In 1995, a former NSA employee told The Baltimore Sun that WTC's communications training included listening in on the phone calls of U.S. citizens, using a loophole in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that permitted domestic eavesdropping so long as the tapes were destroyed immediately afterward.

It consists of several multi-story buildings concealed atop the heavily forested View Tree Mountain, two data center facilities, as well as underground bunkers that house communications infrastructure.

[1] According to Edward Snowden, who trained at WTC during his time with the CIA, Station B is nicknamed The Hill and administers the agency's overseas technical infrastructure.

[26] The United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies Station B as a superfund site due to the presence of an inactive landfill and two chemical pits that have released trichloroethylene into nearby residential drinking water wells.