NHN Cloud, Korea University to Build Battlefield Cloud Platform for Defense AX

As AI transformation, or AX, accelerates in the defense sector, NHN Cloud and the Department of Defense Technology Management at Korea University’s Graduate School of Technology Management, along with the C5ISRT Convergence Research Institute, have signed an industry-academia cooperation memorandum of understanding for defense battlefield cloud and C5ISRT. The agreement was announced on the 16th.

The agreement was signed at Play Museum, NHN Cloud’s office in Seongnam, and the photo featured Korea University Graduate School of Technology Management professor Kang Seok-jung and NHN Cloud CEO Kim Dong-hoon.

Through the agreement, the two sides agreed to lay the groundwork for joint research and technology development cooperation in the C5ISRT field, as well as for research, development, and related business initiatives in defense systems, including AI command-and-control systems. To that end, they have built a cooperation framework based on their respective technologies and research capabilities.

The two sides plan to pursue research and business cooperation in the cloud-based defense sector going forward. They also plan to jointly plan, propose, and carry out related projects such as AI command-and-control systems, while advancing R&D in defense battlefield cloud, AI, and cloud fields.

NHN Cloud will push to apply a cloud-platform-based solution to the defense sector and also advance research and development of a C5ISRT test system. To support this, NHN Cloud is providing investment support worth KRW 10 billion for the resources, technology, and training needed.

The two sides also plan to jointly pursue the establishment of a degree program aimed at training defense AI and cloud specialists, and to create an industry-academia cooperation foundation that links research and education. Kim Dong-hoon, CEO of NHN Cloud, said that AI transformation in defense requires not only AI technology, but also a cloud-based platform for stable use and R&D capabilities for application to actual defense systems.

With this industry-academia partnership as a catalyst, NHN Cloud plans to significantly expand its defense business centered on a defense-specialized cloud platform. It also plans to broaden the scope of cooperation to areas including defense AI data centers based on joint C5ISRT research and technology development, and to expand its cloud platform business that supports defense AX.

Kim Dong-hoon, CEO of NHN Cloud, said he intends to expand investment in research on applying NHN Cloud's cloud platform to the defense sector through cooperation with Korea University's C5ISRT Convergence Research Institute. He also said he aims to expand the business foundation for a specialized battlefield cloud platform and the defense AX field.

Professor Kang Seok-jung of Korea University’s Graduate School of Technology Management said that the defense C5ISRT system, as an AI-, data-, and cloud-based field, requires continuous R&D and advancement, and added that he would pursue stronger R&D on cloud-based C5ISRT systems through cooperation with NHN Cloud. He also stressed his intention to link defense platform research with specialist workforce training and build an industry-academia cooperation model.

NHN Cloud is supplying a closed private cloud environment and DaaS for a system improvement project involving AKJCCS, the allied command and control system that serves as the AI commander in combined U.S.-South Korea operations. It is also participating in a technology development project for a large-scale AI-based command-and-control system using a defense LLM, and the project is currently in the technology negotiation stage.

Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Young-seok
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241651

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