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Can JADC2 Help DOD Build New Nuclear Command and Control?
By: Greg Hadley for A&S Forces
The Pentagon’s plans to invest billions of dollars to upgrade and modernize nuclear command, control, and communications can benefit from the work now being done to create a sweeping joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) system linking sensors to shooters in every domain, a top Air Force general said July 15.
Lt. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, noted the connection during an AFA Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Aerospace Nation interview. Yet even as analysts agreed, serious questions about how to defend the NC3 network, which some have called the “fourth leg” of the nuclear triad, loom ahead. “When I was a lieutenant, we would have a completely separate NC3 system from our conventional command and control systems,” Gebara said. “And at the time, we would just put a multibillion dollar satellite up into GEO orbit and then just not think about it anymore because it works pretty well and no one can get after it.
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