The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command launched its new CECOM Historian website at the end of November 2020. Available at https://cecom.army.mil/Historian, the website features some of the most popular aspects of CECOM, Signal Corps, Fort Monmouth and Aberdeen Proving Ground history. A highlight of the site is a search feature which allows the user to explore and request tens of thousands of documents and photographs from the CECOM History Archive. Along with an “Ask the Historian” link, the new website allows the public the opportunity to access the resources associated with over 100 years of communications and electronics history. Individuals can search for key-words or within specific collections.
Features on the website currently include the Army pigeon service, and the development of communications and electronics equipment, including radar and night vision. Information is also available on how people can donate documents to the archive. Photographs from the earliest days of the Signal Corps laboratories are highlighted, along with photographs of pigeons and equipment.
CECOM traces its roots to the establishment of a Signal Corps training facility and radio research and development laboratory at Camp Little Silver/Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey in 1917. The installation was granted permanent status and was renamed Fort Monmouth in August 1925. The Army established the Electronics Command (ECOM) at Fort Monmouth in 1962 as a subordinate element of the newly formed Army Materiel Command. This CECOM-predecessor was charged with managing Signal research, development, and logistics support. On 1 May 1981, AMC combined several organizations to form the new Communications-Electronics Command. In 2005, BRAC ordered the closure of Fort Monmouth and the relocation of CECOM and the C5ISR Community to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. CECOM officially uncased its colors at APG in October 2010. More in-depth histories of CECOM and the C5ISR community are available on the website.
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