Defense Policy

Fostering a cutting-edge S&T armed forces through Defense Innovation 4.0

Six Major Defense Management Priorities

Considering the rapidly changing national defense environment, including the changing paradigm of future warfare and declining military service resources, fostering robust armed forces of AI S&T with “Defense Innovation 4.0,” a new level of effort to integrate the cutting-edge S&T of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) into all areas of national defense

Key Implementation Tasks

  • Phased transition to an AI-based manned-unmanned complex combat system
  • Driving defense AI/digital transformation
  • Improving the operation capabilities in space, cyber, and electromagnetic spectrum domains
  • Establishment of a force augmentation system based on efficiency and timeliness
  • Military structure planning on a long-term basis
  • Amplifying reserve force capability
  • Establishing a defense R&D system based on innovation, openness, and convergence