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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: "...your film will be confiscated."
Date: 2004.04.21 11:32
Howard sent me a link which contained the following info:
Located at 700 Robbins Avenue (the Navy ICP Philadelphia/DLA complex), NATSF was the Naval Air System Command's central manager of technical documentation and operator of the Navy's first automated central repository for engineering drawings. NATSF's mission was to provide the Fleet with technical manuals and documentation containing operational, outfitting, and repair information for Navy & Marine aircraft, missiles, and equipment. These services consisted of managing the development, acquisition, evaluation, and distribution of maintenance manuals, technical directives, engineering drawings, and Work Unit Code manuals. Similar services were provided to the military of more than 40 countries through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases.
As a result of a "BRAC" decision, the Command was disestablished on 1 October 1998.
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I remember the 1998 disestablishment as local news, as, for years, the "Navy Depot" was a large local employer. The site is not now inactive, however. I have no idea what is going on there now (and to be honest, I never knew until today exactly what did go on there), but the facility is just now seeing the completion of a whole new security fence along (the half mile stretch of) Tabor Road and Robbins Ave. When I saw the new fence construction beginning last Fall, I immediately thought "homeland security".
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