Hanwha Systems Signs Contract for 'Tactical Information Communication System LTE Transition and National Disaster Safety Network Integration' Project

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] Hanwha Systems announced on the 3rd that it signed a contract on the 29th of last month for a project worth approximately 2 billion KRW titled "LTE Conversion of the Tactical Information Communication Network (TICN) System and Integration with the National Disaster Safety Network," which is led by the Army's 1st Corps.

TICN is a core system of the military's network-centric command and control system C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence). It integrates the existing analog military communication network into a digital system that transmits high-speed wired and wireless data.

This project is a defense experimental project to verify whether the existing TICN TMCS (Tactical Mobile Communication System) wireless communication technology, 'WiBro,' can be converted to 'LTE' and reflected in the future 'Performance-Enhanced TICN.' Additionally, it confirms the possibility of expanding the tactical network through integration experiments with the disaster safety network testbed.

Hanwha Systems will pre-implement the performance-enhanced TICN TMCS model and verify its applicability to the military by developing an 'LTE base station' supporting military frequencies and an 'integrated terminal' capable of simultaneously supporting military frequency LTE and the disaster safety network.

Through this, the military will be able to utilize the performance-enhanced TICN on a more advanced communication network, and it is expected to enable stable communication by resolving communication shadowing caused by the geographical characteristics of mountainous terrain, Hanwha Systems explained.

As the main contractor of TICN, Hanwha Systems expects to secure competitiveness in winning related projects such as 'Performance-Enhanced TICN,' 'Integrated Individual Combat System Development,' and 'Performance-Enhanced Battalion-Level and Below Combat Command System' by preemptively securing technology for the military's future communication technology market.

Previously, Hanwha Systems completed the first TICN mass production project worth approximately 188.1 billion KRW by the end of 2016, finished the second TICN mass production project worth about 462.4 billion KRW by December last year, and signed a contract for the third TICN supply project worth 468.5 billion KRW.

Kim Yeon-cheol, CEO of Hanwha Systems, said, "If this project is successfully completed, our military will be guaranteed free communication in various operational environments anytime and anywhere," adding, "Hanwha Systems, as the only domestic defense electronics and ICT convergence company, will lead the future operational technology of mobile communication networks essential for smart defense."

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