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After it became more heavily used, it was determined that the Army needed its own secure hub on a military base in Germany. This hub was located in [[Mannheim, Germany]] outside of Coleman Barracks at a ___location known as the "tank-farm". This ___location was chosen because it already housed other satellite hubs, one of which was for AFN.

While the Land Earth Station (LES) was located in Mannheim, the [[network server]]s that processed the messages and GPS ___location information were initially housed in Friedrichsfeld, [[Voerde]], [[Germany]]. They were later moved to [[Kilbourne Kasserne]] in [[Schwetzingen]]. This move was made because the facility at Friedrichsfeld was not robust enough and had poor communications paths. The site in Schwetzingen, also known as "Site-S" had better comms and was also an official military [[Network Operations Center]] (NOC).

At its height, there were three server stacks for processing DTRACS data. One stack for European devices, another for devices in SWA and a third for receiving a split-feed from the KBR (Kellog Brown and Root) owned and operated server. While KBR had their own vehicles and server, all three systems used the satellite for their communications