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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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.
--
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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