A B-2 Spirit bomber sits on the flightline prior to takeoff at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Strategic bombers like the B-2 make up one leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.

U.S. Strategic Command was handed the responsibility last fall to solve one of the Defense Department’s most sensitive and complex technology problems: the modernization of the nation’s nuclear command, control and communications system, known as NC3.

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Sandra Erwin writes about military space programs, policy, technology and the industry that supports this sector. She has covered the military, the Pentagon, Congress and the defense industry for nearly two decades as editor of NDIA’s National Defense...