Naver Cloud Presents Sovereign Defense AI Strategy… Reveals Four Principles for Building a 'Learning Force'

Naver Cloud hosted Defense AI Day under the theme of 'Sovereign Defense AI Strategy,' presenting concrete execution plans for Korea's defense AI transformation. Former Vice Minister of National Defense Kim Seon-ho emphasized that building a civilian-military convergence ecosystem is essential to respond to declining manpower resources and increasing complex threats.

Senior Executive Vice President Yoo Kyung-beom proposed four execution principles considering battlefield changes and Korean conditions. These include role-based consolidation among Big Tech, startups, and system integrators, maintaining control such as prohibiting the export of source data, two-pronged validation combining operational data and full-stack verification, and evolution toward a subscription-based structure.

Senior Executive Vice President Sung Nak-ho recommended deploying layered hybrid models rather than a single large model, as intelligence requirements vary by decision-making structure. To this end, he presented a four-step approach: pre-training on private hyperscale infrastructure, learning with defense-adjacent domain data, and finally processing confidential data exclusively within closed networks.

Executive Director Lee So-eun analyzed that battlefield dominance depends not on the volume of information but on 'speed of understanding.' Naver Cloud's defense AI platform is designed to connect heterogeneous data in real-time via Data Fabric, structure data meaning and doctrine via Defense Ontology, and enable Decision Agent to compare multiple courses of action.

Executive Director Park Jong-geon pointed out that the core of AI infrastructure is not the computing resources themselves but the continuous execution capability throughout the lifecycle. He introduced a strategy to flexibly respond from central synchronization to field-independent operations depending on connectivity, through Defense-Specific Cloud offerings that ensure security-level segmentation and mission continuity.