Olney Support Center
The Olney Support Center, formerly the Olney Federal Support Center, is an underground facility of the Carderock Division of the [Naval Surface Warfare Center|Carderock Division] of the U.S. Naval [Surface Warfare Center] located in Montgomery [County, Maryland|Montgomery County], Maryland, United States. The center occupies of property east of Laytonsville, Maryland, on the site of a former Project Nike base. The NSWC acquired the facility from the Federal [Emergency Management Agency] in March 2019.
Prior to its acquisition by the NSWC, the center was a communications, satellite teleregistration and data network facility. It at one time housed the FEMA Alternate Operations Center as a control center for the U.S. National Warning System. It was also part of the FEMA National Radio System, a high-frequency radio network that links FEMA's emergency operations centers.