- The SFC is a tri-Service command that forms part of India’s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA).
- It was created on January 4, 2003 by an executive order of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) headed by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- Function: It is responsible for the management and administration of the country’s tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile.
- It is headed by a Commander-in-Chief of the rank of Air Marshal.