the radars. In 1983, Cape Newenham received a new AN/FPS-117 minimally attended radar under Alaskan Air Command's SEEK IGLOO program. It was designed to transmit aircraft tracking data via satellite to the Alaskan NORAD Regional Operations Control Center (ROCC) at Elmendorf AFB. No longer needed, the 794th AC&W Sq was inactivated on 1 November 1983 and the station redesignated as a Long Range Radar (LRR) Site. This left only contractor personnel to maintain the site radar. The composite building was modified to house personnel and equipment, and the other facilities were disposed of. In 1990, jurisdiction of the Cape Newenham LRR Site was transferred to Eleventh Air Force with the re-designation of AAC. In 1998 Pacific Air Forces initiated "Operation Clean Sweep", in which abandoned Cold War stations in Alaska were remediated and the land restored to its previous state. After years of neglect the facilities at the station had lost any value they had when the site was closed. The site remediation of the radar, support and White Alice communication station was carried out by the 611th Civil Engineering Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, and remediation work was completed by 2005. Demographics Cape Newenham (Station) appeared once, on the 1980 U.S. Census, as a census-designated place (CDP), just prior to its closure. It has not appeared on the census since. Current status Today very little of the former Cape Newenham Air Force Station remains. It is controlled by the Pacific Air Forces 611th Air Support Group, based at Elmendorf AFB. The site is generally unattended; a few civilian contractor maintenance personnel needed for continued operation access the site by the Cape Newenham LRRS Airport when needed to maintain the radar system. Climate Cape Newenham has the typical subarctic climate of most of Alaska, though owing to the maritime influence of the Bering Sea it borders on a polar climate despite receiving an amount of precipitation one would expect more of an oceanic location. Air Force units and assignments Units Constituted as the 794th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 3 November 1952 Activated on 8 December 1952 Inactivated on 1 November 1983 Assignments 531st Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 8 December 1952 10th Air Division, 13 April 1953 5039th Aircraft Control and Warning Group (later 5050th Aircraft Control, 1 June 1957 10th Air Division, 1 November 1959 5070th Air Defense Wing, 1 August 1960 Alaskan Air Command, 1 November 1961