NCS air defense performance brings USAF criticisms into question

Although U.S. Air Force leaders say they chose to adopt the Battle Control System Fixed (BCS-F) because the existing interim air defense command and control (C2) system -- the NORAD Contingency Suite (NCS) -- lacks the necessary processing power to handle all the radars the service wants to...

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