 The squadron was inactivated on 1 November 1962.On 1 April 1963 Armstrong AS was connected to the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, and the station became a long-range radar site.It would no longer guide interceptors but only look for enemy aircraft, feeding data to the Duluth Air Defense Sector SAGE DC-10 Data Center of the 30th NORAD Region at Duluth AFS, Minnesota

Later that month, the American station was handed over to the Royal Canadian Air Force and renamed the site as RCAF Station Armstrong.