All Minuteman III launch control centers now have received planned modifications, moving them into the so-called minimum essential emergency communications network. The $250 million project, executed by Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., eliminated Minuteman’s 1962-vintage survivable low frequency communications system. The new system helps ensure the LCCs can “receive Presidential directives throughout the full spectrum of nuclear conflict,” said 1st. Lt. John Gould, network program manager. The new set-up includes connections to the hardened Milstar satellite.
Give Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, commander of Pacific Air Forces, one extra dollar, and he would spend it bolstering the U.S.’s air superiority in the region, he said March 20. And within that endeavor, there are plenty of efforts to pursue, Wilsbach said during an Aerospace Nation webinar hosted by the…