All Naval Units to Share Ballistic Missile Data in Real Time

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[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter]The Navy has completed the performance upgrade of the naval tactical C4I system, equipped with features that allow all naval units to share ultra-high-speed ballistic missile targets in real time. The C4I system is a term combining Command, Control, Communication, Computer, and Intelligence.

According to the military on the 7th, Ssangyong Information & Communications successfully completed the performance upgrade project of the naval tactical C4I system, significantly enhancing the Navy's command and control capabilities.

The naval tactical C4I is equipment that shares tactical situations between all naval units and combatants through the linkage of surveillance and reconnaissance systems and each military branch's C4I, supporting commanders' rational decision-making. It enables real-time command and control, playing a role in ensuring operational success.

With this performance upgrade, three-dimensional, ultra-high-speed, and high-altitude ballistic missile targets can now be transmitted and shared in real time with all naval units, and the capacity to process targets has expanded more than threefold. The four C4I systems, which had been operated separately, were integrated into one system, allowing all information to be operated through a fused situational map on a single terminal.

Additionally, the main backbone communication networks and equipment were duplicated, and the time to switch to a backup command post when core command post functions are limited was reduced from the previous 4 hours to within 10 minutes. The information transmission system was designed with a horizontal structure between higher and lower units, ensuring stable system operability that allows uninterrupted real-time command and control even when intermediate units experience failures.

To respond to increasing cyber security threats such as hacking, anti-hacking security measures and the latest security solutions were applied from the design stage, and the entire operating units' terminals can be remotely controlled in real time.

Since 2004, the Navy has built and operated four systems: the Korean Navy Tactical Data System (KNTDS), Korean Navy Command and Control System (KNCCS), Digital Message Handling System (DMHS), and real-time text network. However, due to equipment aging from long-term operation, information processing delays, and decreased efficiency from distributed command and control system operation, problems arose. Therefore, from August 2015 until last month, 147.2 billion KRW was invested to carry out the performance upgrade work.

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