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The Ministry of National Defense and NIA held the Jangbyeongeum performance sharing meeting on the 28th at Peace & Park Convention in Seoul, unveiling first-phase operating results and new second-phase capabilities scheduled for the end of October. Jangbyeongeum is a defense platform that covers the period from before enlistment through active duty and reserve service after discharge, integrating 46 system services on a private cloud and covering about 7 million potential users. About 400,000 service members have signed up so far, or 89% of all service members, cumulative usage has exceeded 3.4 million cases, and certificate issuance time has been cut from as long as 2 weeks to 1-2 minutes.
The Ministry of National Defense and the Korea National Information Society Agency (NIA) held the "Jangbyeongeum Performance Sharing Meeting" on the 28th at Peace & Park Convention in Seoul. About 120 key attendees took part in the event, where the first-phase service operation results of Jangbyeongeum and new second-phase capabilities slated to go live at the end of October were unveiled.
At the event, Jangbyeongeum was introduced as a defense platform that covers the entire service cycle, from before enlistment to active duty and reserve service after discharge. Built on a private cloud, Jangbyeongeum integrates 46 system services that had previously been fragmented, including personnel, administration, welfare, medical and education services. It also covers about 7 million potential users, including military families, military civilian employees, enlistment candidates and veterans.
The Megazone consortium presented the results of the build project and also handled the introduction of the demonstration video.
The service launched in February, and about 400,000 service members have signed up so far, accounting for 89% of all service members. Cumulative usage has exceeded 3.4 million cases. The time required to issue certificates has improved from as long as 2 weeks in the past to 1-2 minutes on the mobile app. Among the most-used services are claims for treatment at private hospitals and courses for earning academic credits.
In the released demonstration video, key functions scheduled to be applied in the second-phase rollout at the end of October were introduced, and Megazone's PM Park Myeong-geun led the demonstration. The demo unveiled a 1-on-1 conversational generative AI chatbot built on cloud GPU infrastructure, which can search defense regulations and laws such as standards for paying military civilian employee allowances and service periods. The chatbot also provided supporting references along with its answers. It then introduced AI assistant functions for checking remaining leave passes and linking directly to express bus reservation sites, and also unveiled e-learning progress tracking, travel course recommendations and book recommendations.
In addition, blockchain-based decentralized identity (DID) technology was applied to prevent tampering and forgery. A digital wallet was also unveiled, containing military ID cards, leave passes and travel orders. The "Personnel Alert" service was also unveiled, providing notifications of major personnel and administrative changes on mobile and PC.
The mobile ID was already introduced in the first-phase service, and the AI chatbot was added in the second phase. The second phase also added the issuance of mobile certificates based on the digital wallet, along with 14 upgraded services. As a result, a total of 46 services are provided through a single platform.
Kim Eun-ju, head of NIA, described it as the most successful case of collaboration between advanced public and private technologies. She said she hopes the service will go beyond improving administrative convenience and serve as the starting point for the launch of the era of defense AI agents.
Yeom Ju-seong, director of the Defense Informationization Bureau at the Ministry of National Defense, said that in the past, service members had to search for needed services on their own. He added that going forward, the system will move toward an active service model in which it first identifies and guides users to the benefits best suited to their service stage and situation.
Kim Deok-jin, head of the IT Communication Research Institute, said that while the focus so far has been on building a connected platform, there is a need going forward to review an agent operation model based on the platform. He stressed that in this process, designing the scope of authority and the blocking structure is more important than simply delegating authority.
The Megazone consortium plans to complete the handover to the operating agency by the end of this month, and then carry out a security inspection in October. After those procedures, it plans to launch the second-phase rollout at the end of October.
Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Young-seok
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