National Defense Management Center
| National Defense Management Center | |
|---|---|
| Национальный центр управления обороной РФ | |
 Official Emblem of the center | |
| Founded | 1 December 2014 |
| Country |  Russian Federation |
| Branch | General Staff of the Armed Forces |
| Type | Command center |
| Role | Provide operational control over the Armed Forces |
| Part of | Ministry of Defense |
| Headquarters | Frunzenskaya Embankment, 22, Moscow |
| Nicknames | "НЦУО", NTsUO (NDMC), (NDCC) |
| Engagements | |
| Commanders | |
| Director | Oleg Gorshenin |
55°44′56″N 37°36′8″E / 55.74889°N 37.60222°E
The National Defense Management Center (Russian: Национальный центр управления обороной РФ, Natsional'nyi tsentr upravleniya oboronoi RF (НЦУО)) is the supreme command and control center of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It was formerly the Central Command Post of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
Its two primary functions are to provide centralized combat command and control of the Armed Forces and to enable a whole-of-government response to security threats.[1] It is made up of the "Strategic Nuclear Forces Command Centre, which controls the use of nuclear weapons; the Combat Control Centre, which monitors the world military-political situation and the socio-political situation in the Russian Federation, analyzes and forecasts threats, develops ways to respond, and controls the use of the Armed Forces, as well as non-MOD troops and military formations; and the Day-to-day Operations Management Centre, which coordinates the activities of federal authorities to meet the needs of MOD and other troops, military formations, and bodies for defence purposes."[1]
Function
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The center is considered as the second highest authority responsible for the Defense Ministry's management and supervision, after the Minister himself and is directly subordinate to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, overseen by the Chief of the General Staff.
It has a powerful military supercomputer called NDMC Supercomputer with a speed of 16 petaflops and storage capacity of 236 petabytes.[2][3]
The center is located in the Main Building of the Ministry of Defense at Frunzenskaya Embankment, 22, Moscow, Russia.
The computer network of the center is based on the Russian military computer operating system Astra Linux by Rusbitech company,[4] which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army.[citation needed] Modernization with artificial intelligence software is underway.[5]
National Defense Management Center Head
[edit]Since its establishment in late 2014, Lieutenant General Mikhail Mizintsev was appointed as the defense center's first director. He was promoted to Colonel General in 2017.
In September 2022, Oleg Gorshenin, former commander of the 154th separate commandant's regiment, was appointed Head of the National Defense Management Center, replacing Mizintsev who was appointed to Deputy Defence Minister.
Gallery
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The facade of the National Defense Management Center
Vladimir Putin in National Defense Management Center
The National Defense Management Center in Moscow
The National Defense Management Center in Moscow (Information hall)
The National Defense Management Center (Control and Interaction Hall)
Live briefings from different parts of Russia at the National Defense Management Center
Vladimir Putin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and General Staff along with other Russian generals at a meeting in the National Defense Management Center
The heads of state of the CSTO member states at the Russian National Defense Management Center, 23 December 2014
Commander of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Lieutenant General Kuralenko briefs the press at the National Defense Management Center, 27 February 2016
Colonel General Mizintsev (left), Admiral Igor Kostyukov (centre) and Head of Main Organizational-Mobilizational Directorate Colonel General Burdinsky at a meeting, 29 January 2020
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See also
[edit]- National Military Command Center (United States)
- Military citadels under London (United Kingdom)
- Presidential Situation Center (Russia)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Collective 2023, p. 24.
- ↑ "Интерфакс-Агентство Военных Новостей". Militarynews.ru. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ↑ "Шойгу рассказал о мощности суперкомпьютера Центра управления обороной". Rbc.ru. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ↑ (in Russian) https://spbit.ru/news/n119990/
- ↑ "AI to assist Russian military brass in decision-making, says hi-tech manufacturer".
- Collective (2023). "The Russian General Staff Understanding the Military's Decisionmaking Role in a "Besieged Fortress"" (PDF). Authors included Blanc, Alexis A., Alyssa Demus, Sandra K. Evans, Michelle Grisé, Mark Hvizda, Marta Kepe, Natasha Lander, and Krystyna Marcinek
- Miasnikov, V., Natsional'niy tsentr upravleniia oboroni gotov k deystvyiu NVO, No. 40 (829) 7-13/11/2014
External links
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Media related to National Centre for management of defence of the Russian Federation at Wikimedia Commons- "Official homepage".
- Баранец, Виктор (2014-11-01). "Что такое "Национальный центр управления обороной России" и зачем он создан?" (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. Archived from the original on 2025-12-02.
