Selva: Separate NC3 system, valid cybersecurity data key to modern nukes

By Rachel Cohen / August 7, 2017 at 10:26 AM
The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week made the case for separating nuclear command and control from the military's push toward a multidomain system, which the Air Force is exploring through an Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team study slated to end this fall. "The nuclear command-and-control system, if it's not a standalone system, then becomes subject to all of the vulnerabilities of any other command-and-control system you hook it up to," Selva said at an Aug. 3...

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