Los Angeles Air Force Base
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Los Angeles Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). The center manages research, development and acquisition of military space systems.
History
In 1961, the Air Force developed a plan to consolidate it Space Systems Division & the Research and Deveolpment (R&D) Center of The Aerospace Corporation, which had been created in 1960 and to support Air Force space programs. The plan involved acquisition of two pieces of real estate adjoining the R&D Center. An aircraft plant owned by the Navy at the northwest corner of Aviation and El Segundo Boulevards, was transferred to the Air Force in October 1962. Another site at the southwest corner of the same intersection, was owned by a mining company. The Aerospace Corporation acquired that site in November 1962 and built its new headquarters there between February 1963 and April 1964. By April 10, 1964, the Air Force property at the intersection of Aviation and El Segundo Boulevards was designated as Los Angeles Air Force Station, which was redesignated as Los Angeles Air Force Base in September 1987.
External link
Los Angeles Air Force Base (http://www.losangeles.af.mil/)
