KT Consortium Leads the Establishment of the Defense Integrated Data Center

Replacement of Aging Equipment and Intelligent SW-Centered Operation
Close Collaboration with Supervisory and Demand Agencies
"DIDC Construction and Demand Agency Service Transition"

On the 19th, KT announced that it held a design review meeting for the 'Next-Generation Intelligent SDDC (Software Defined Data Center)-Based Defense Integrated Data Center (DIDC) Construction Project' together with consortium companies. The KT consortium has been promoting this project since signing the contract in September last year. The core content is to replace outdated equipment built before 2015 and transition the operating environment centered on intelligent software (SW). In particular, expanding the defense cloud, establishing an intelligent information protection system, and standardizing service operations are also included as major tasks.

KT Cloud/DXO P-TF Executive Director Jinsoo Jeong (seventh from the left in the front row), Colonel Sejong Oh, Director of ICT Infrastructure Policy at the Ministry of National Defense (fourth from the left), Colonel Jaemyung Cho, Head of the 1st Center at the Defense Integrated Data Center (fifth from the left), and Colonel Changgi Moon, Head of the 2nd Center at the Defense Integrated Data Center (third from the left), are posing for a commemorative photo after the design briefing. (Photo by KT)

The recently held design review meeting was a stage to evaluate technical feasibility, completeness, and accuracy. About 300 people attended, including officials from the Ministry of National Defense, the Defense Computer and Information Agency, and the supervising organization, the Defense Integrated Data Center. The KT consortium plans to proceed with construction based on the design report of the foundational operating environment and the target system for demand unit application SW, in close collaboration with them.

Oh Hun-yong, Executive Director of KT Proposal/Execution Headquarters 2, said, “Based on KT’s long-standing cloud construction and related business capabilities, we will successfully complete the DIDC construction and service transition for demand agencies,” adding, “As a leading business in digital transformation (DX), we will contribute to the development of the defense sector.”