Naver Cloud joins forces with Korea University to pursue major defense AI projects

Naver Cloud is making an aggressive push into defense artificial intelligence (AI), announcing a partnership with Korea University to jointly pursue defense projects worth about 20 billion won ($13.5 million) and develop AI technologies for the military's next generation of command-and-control systems. The company said Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea University's C5ISRT Convergence Research Center following the agreement reached Monday to expand industry-academia cooperation in defense C5ISRT, which integrates command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting. Naver Cloud said the partnership combines its AI and cloud computing capabilities with the research center's nearly 40 years of expertise in defense technology management. The research center is led by Kang Seok-joong, a professor at Korea University's Graduate School of Management of Technology and a longtime researcher in defense acquisition, command-and-control systems and national defense policy. The two sides said they will jointly participate