Otis Air Base, Massachusetts

Otis is home to the Air National Guard's 102nd Intelligence Wing, whose primary function is to assemble, analyze, and exploit data collected by various sources, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Otis, which has had as many as 1,000 employees at times, is one of several distinct operations at Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC), a 22,000-acre restricted area on Cape Cod. Much of the property belongs to the U.S. Army's Camp Edwards, which peaked in population during World War Two with as many as 100,000 people (including 2,000 German POWs), but was soon reduced to Army National Guard and Air National Guard training functions. Different portions of JBCC have suffered extensive soil, groundwater, and surface water contamination due to decades of varied use. In 1989, the EPA declared Otis Air National Guard Base a Superfund cleanup site, due to contamination arising primarily from chemical and fuel spills, fire training activities, and landfill contents.  Also on site is U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, one of the largest Coast Guard air bases in the country, an abandoned Bomarc missile base, and a PAVE PAWS radar antenna, managed by the US Air Force's 6th Space Warning Squadron.