For over 60 years, the present-day Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site (AMOS) has provided the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with space situational awareness capabilities from the island of Maui, Hawaii.
The Rand Corporation recently announced the publication of A Sixty-Year Timeline of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site, by Megan Clifford, Dave Baiocchi, and William Welser IV.
This document contains a timeline of key events in the history of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site. Since it was built in the 1950s, the site’s mission, management structure, and operational partners have changed several times to accommodate the contemporary challenges and research tools. This timeline documents some of these historical changes.
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