ISS Boddington

ISS Boddington
	Near Barrow, Gloucestershire in England
	RAF Boddington
Coordinates	51°55′18″N 002°09′55″W
Type	Communications station
Area	2 hectares
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Royal Air Force
Controlled by	RAF Support Command (1978-1998); DCSA (1998-2007)
Condition	Closed
Site history
Built	1940
In use	1940-2007
Fate	Transferred to DCSA (now ISS)

ISS Boddington is an installation of Information Systems & Services, an operating cluster of the Ministry of Defence. It was formerly RAF Boddington, a non-flying Royal Air Force station located in Boddington, Gloucestershire, England, and was the former home of No. 9 Signals Unit RAF.

Boddington was the first computerised communication centre in the 1950s when it was run by the British Army. The tradition of computerised relay communications has continued to the present day.[1]

History

The station was established in 1940 as an army telephone exchange operated by the Auxiliary Territorial Service under the guard of the Gloucestershire Regiment. It was later controlled by the Royal Signal Corps before passing to the Royal Air Force.

On 1 October 1978 RAF Boddington became No. 9 Signals Unit (No. 9 SU), an independent Unit under the control of RAF Support Command Signals Headquarters (SCSHQ), with functional control of their respective networks by Communication Defence Control Network (CDCN) and Headquarters RAF Strike Command (HQSTC).

In 1998 operational command of Boddington transferred to the newly formed Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA), with the unit becoming known as DCSA 9 SU Boddington. The unit was subsequently chosen as the Primary Message Agent site for the United Kingdom as part of the Automated Messaging Systems Communications Equipment Replacement Programme (AMSCERP) which provided secure messaging services for the RAF and British Army.[1]

The facility was upgraded in 2006 during which time temporary buildings were used to accommodate IT equipment.[2]

Post RAF use

Although the site ceased to be an RAF station in December 2007, it was retained by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as a communications station.[3] The site is now known as ISS Boddington, having initially been operated by the Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA) and now Information Systems and Services (ISS), part of Joint Forces Command.

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References

"End of an era for historic Gloucestershire unit". Ministry of Defence. 14 December 2007. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
"05/01374/CRN | Construction of concrete raft and siting of 2 no. temporary buildings and plant. Construction of temporary car park. | RAF Boddington Barrow". Tewkesbury Borough Council. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
Thomas-Bailey, Carlene; Emina, Seb (4 April 2009). "Military sites". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

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[MoD-1] "End of an era for historic Gloucestershire unit". Ministry of Defence. 14 December 2007. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

[2] "05/01374/CRN | Construction of concrete raft and siting of 2 no. temporary buildings and plant. Construction of temporary car park. | RAF Boddington Barrow". Tewkesbury Borough Council. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

[3] Thomas-Bailey, Carlene; Emina, Seb (4 April 2009). "Military sites". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 August 2017.