Infinite Paths for Nuclear Command, Control.

• Position: UP FRONT COMPILED BY STEW MAGNUSON

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, Strategic Command commander, said the Air Force has to look up to 50 years into the future to how it wants to do nuclear command, control and communications.

Stratcom was recently given the responsibility of modernizing NC3 technology, and just how to do that has been on the mind of Hyten, who spoke at the Space Symposium the day he was nominated to become the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Today, the president and the military rely on a highly protected and certified point-to-point communication system, but he has looked...