This area served as Picatinny’s rocket engine test facility, where functional and performance tests were conducted on the Redstone, Honest John, Loki, Nike Ajax, Shillelagh, Pershing I, and the SAGE. The buildings here were constructed across the Cold War era, when a perceived Soviet military threat influenced objectives and policy in the U.S. and made the development of rockets and missile systems one of Picatinny’s primary functions.