California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Navy to Move Ships From Long Beach

Nine Navy ships will be transferred from Long Beach to San Diego over the next three years, and other support units will be merged with existing Navy commands in San Diego when the Pentagon begins closing military facilities throughout the United States next year, officials said. Pentagon officials released sketchy details of the military’s long-awaited base closure plans on Tuesday. The changes affecting San Diego will begin next September, when the Naval Space Systems Activity and its small staff will be transferred from Los Angeles to the Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center in San Diego. The local surveillance center also is scheduled to receive personnel from other Navy units scheduled for deactivation. The Naval Ocean Systems Center Detachment in Hawaii will be deactivated in September, 1993, and some of its personnel transferred to San Diego.