Transients and trends

United States air defenses have been given a boost by the first Backup Interceptor Control (BUIC) installation. Located at North Truro, Mass., near the tip of Cape Cod, the high-speed computerized control center will furnish air defense commanders with up-to-the-minute information on any airborne threats to the Boston air defense sector. This facility is only one of many widely dispersed semiautomatic control centers that will back up the SAGE (Semiautomatic Ground Environment) system and take over in the event one or more SAGE direction centers become inoperative.