The Washington Area Wideband System (WAWS)
Microwave Route Map

From the Western Union Telegraph Company's proposal document, dated 1979

Notes:

• Fort Meade houses the headquarters of the National Security Agency
• NSS was the Naval Security Station near Ward Circle on Nebraska, Ave. NW, Washington, DC (now headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security)
• Friendship Annex is the National Security Agency's facility near Baltimore-Washington International Airport
• Andrews is Andrews Air Force Base in Prince Georges County, MD
• Liberty Dam is a former Western Union microwave relay station
• Blue Ridge is the Alternate Joint Communications Center (Site R), near Blue Ridge Summit, PA
• Damascus is the former U.S Army Strategic Communications Command microwave tower near that town
• Tenley is the former Western Union's Tenley Tower in the Tenleytown neighborhood of northwest Washington, DC
• The node south of Tenley and NSS is the Pentagon in Arlington, VA

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