Defense & Military

Air Force Identifies NC2 as Possible Area for Cut

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Brian Bradley
NS&D Monitor
2/6/2015
Without budgetary relief, planned upgrades to the aging nuclear command and control (NC2) system could suffer. The Air Force’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget request includes $287 million for modernization of the NC2 architecture,…

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