By 1950, planners had made their final site selections for a permanent Aircraft Control and Warning system.

It tied into the AAC Aircraft Control and Warning System though the White Alice network of 33 troposcatter and microwave sites.

In the late 1940s with the outbreak of the Cold War, the United States Air Force decided to expand the aircraft control and warning system in the Alaska Territory.

As budgetary reductions affected the command and control, as well as the fighter defense of Alaska in the late 1950s, the Aircraft Control and Warning System was not immune.