North American Aerospace Defense Command

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North American Aerospace Defense Command
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
The seal of NORAD.
Type	Air Force Command 1
Built	1961 (Directorate)^[1]
In use	1958 - present
Current owner	Canada ; United States
Controlled by	Joint operations of Canadian Forces Air Command and United States Air Force
Garrison	Headquarters: Peterson Air Force Base Directorate: Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station^[2] (west of Colorado Springs, CO)

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD; previously known as North American Air Defense Command) is a joint organization of Canada and the United States that provides aerospace warning and control for North America.^[3] It was founded on May 12, 1958, as the North American Air Defense Command. Since 1963, NORAD's main technical facility has been the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center in Colorado, and for this reason NORAD is sometimes unofficially referred to as Cheyenne Mountain.

NORAD's headquarters facilities in Colorado are administered by the U.S. Air Force under the command of the 721st Mission Support Group, part of the 21st Space Wing, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base. NORAD's forces consist of the Alaskan NORAD Region/Eleventh Air Force, Canadian NORAD Region, and Continental NORAD Region.

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