NHN Cloud and Korea University Join Forces on Defense C5ISRT R&D, Build Battlefield Cloud Platform
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NHN Cloud and Korea University signed a business agreement for joint research and technology development in the defense C5ISRT field.
The two sides will jointly plan, propose and carry out defense system projects, including an AI command and control system, and will also pursue research and development in the defense battlefield cloud, AI and cloud fields.
They will also carry out research on applying NHN Cloud’s cloud platform to the defense common-use and standard platform and C5ISRT testbed, while cooperating on training defense AI and cloud specialists.
NHN Cloud and Korea University will pursue joint research and technology development in the defense C5ISRT field. Their goal is to apply a cloud platform to a defense common-use, standard platform and testbed, and to lay the foundation for a defense-specialized battlefield cloud.
On the 15th at Play Museum in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, NHN Cloud and Korea University’s Graduate School of Technology Management Department of Defense Technology Management C5ISRT Convergence Research Institute signed a business agreement. The purpose of the agreement is industry-academia cooperation in the defense battlefield cloud and C5ISRT fields.
Following the agreement, the two sides will jointly plan, propose and carry out defense system projects, including an AI command and control system. They will also jointly promote research and development in the defense battlefield cloud, AI and cloud fields.
They will also conduct research on applying NHN Cloud’s cloud platform to the defense common-use and standard platform and C5ISRT testbed. NHN Cloud plans to invest KRW 10 billion to support related technology development and educational resources.
The two sides plan to cooperate on nurturing defense AI and cloud specialists, while also jointly pushing ahead with the establishment of degree programs. Through this, they aim to create an industry-academia cooperation base that links research and development with education.
NHN Cloud has accumulated experience in building closed cloud systems in the defense sector. It is currently supplying a private cloud environment for the performance improvement project of the ROK-U.S. combined operations command and control system, and is also supplying DaaS. It is also taking part in the "ultra-large AI-based command and control system technology development project" for defense large language model (LLM) use, and is currently negotiating technology related to the project.
With this cooperation as a turning point, NHN Cloud will expand its business into the field of defense-specialized battlefield cloud platforms. Based on its joint research foundation in C5ISRT and its experience applying defense platforms, it is also planning to broaden the scope of cooperation to areas such as defense AIDC in the future.
Kim Dong-hoon, CEO of NHN Cloud, said that for defense AX, AI technology must be accompanied by a stable cloud platform and R&D capabilities for applying it to defense systems. He also expressed his intention to expand the battlefield cloud platform and related business foundation through cooperation with Korea University.
Kang Seok-jung, a professor at Korea University’s Graduate School of Technology Management and head of the C5ISRT Research Center, said the university will strengthen cloud-based C5ISRT research and development through its cooperation with NHN Cloud. He added that the scope of the partnership will not stop at R&D, but will extend to defense platform research and the training of specialized talent.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407026
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