recent Gulf War experience, became the installation “commander” and was able to show off that the great capability indeed worked fine alone, but unfortunately didn't work well with others. Rather than take the failure as a defeat, General Franklin used it to encourage the staff to rebuild the systems under development to interoperate. Subsequently, by the time the second Fort Franklin occurred on 1–16 May 1995, the systems were beginning to communicate. For the first time, the results of calculations performed by one system were transferred automatically to another system for further interpretation or processing. Not wanting to lose the expertise that had created this success, LtGen Franklin established an ongoing experimentation facility at Hanscom known as the Command & Control (C2) Unified Development Environment (CUBE). CUBE was later renamed the C2 Engineering and Integration Facility (CEIF). The experience of Fort Franklin was instrumental in development in 1997 of the Air Force's major experiment, the Expeditionary Force Experiment (EFX 98), which became a Joint EFX (JEFX) in 1999. Lineage Constituted as the Electronic Systems Division on 20 March 1961 Activated on 1 Apr 61 Redesignated '''Electronic Systems Center on 1 July 92 Inactivated on 1 October 2012 Assignments Air Force Systems Command, 1 April 1961 Air Force Materiel Command, 1 July 1992 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Air Force Life Cycle Management Center after 16 July 2012) Components 38th Engineering Installation Wing, c1994 66th Air Base Wing 350th Electronic Systems Wing, 17 December 2004 – 30 June 2010 551st Electronic Systems Wing 554th Electronic Systems Wing 653d Electronic Systems Wing other wings, groups, squadrons, and directorates Stations Hanscom Air Force Base, 1 April 1961 - 1 October 2012 Commanders See also List of military installations in Massachusetts References External links Official Hanscom Air Force Base website Electronic Systems Center Official factsheet 554 ELSW official factsheet Centers of the United States Air Force Military units and formations in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Massachusetts