Joint Air Defense Command (JADC) is an organization of the Allied States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the entire North American continent. It was founded on May 12, 1958 (an effect of the Cold War) as a joint command between the governments of Canada and the United States, as the North American Air Defense Command. It was later renamed and re-renovated by the Allied States (when Colorado merged with the Allied States in February 2010), to become the Joint Air Defense Command. Its main technical facility has been the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate, formerly Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, of the Cheyenne Mtn. Air Force Station, Kansas; and for this reason JADC is sometimes referred to as Cheyenne Mountain. However the facility's official name is the