Pentagon wrestling with closed nuke C3 in the cloud-computing era

By Rachel Cohen / May 11, 2017 at 4:56 PM
The military still lacks a technical solution for next-generation nuclear command, control and communications, though the operational requirements are "in good shape," the leader of U.S. Strategic Command told Inside the Air Force this week. "We've got a pretty good handle on requirements, but what we don't have is a good, future-based technical architecture that says, 'this is how we actually build out those things,'" Gen. John Hyten told ITAF at a strategic deterrence conference outside Washington on Tuesday. "We'll...

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