As Defense Department leaders study how best to organize the military's nuclear command, control and communications, Senate authorizers have proposed a slew of changes to that portfolio's oversight. In the June 7 report accompanying the Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill, lawmakers offered a framework to “centralize and clarify” who is responsible for NC3 systems, including a requirement for the defense secretary to assign one person to manage those programs. That appointee would...
