NC3 enterprise's new setup aims to improve sustainment, modernization

By Rachel Cohen / July 7, 2017 at 12:00 PM
The Air Force is reorganizing its nuclear command, control and communications enterprise in the hope that management changes will lead to a more effective, modernized system. Designating the NC3 enterprise as a weapon system, AN/USQ-225, and dividing responsibility between an NC3 Center at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, and a program executive office at Hanscom AFB, MA, brings more unity to those programs for the first time since Strategic Air Command dissolved in the 1990s and pushed management out to...

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