National Defense Management Center

The National Defense Management Center, also known as National Defense Control Center (NDCC) (Russian: Национальный центр управления обороной РФ, Natsional'nyi tsentr upravleniya oboronoi RF) is the supreme command and control center of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian Armed Forces.

National Defense Management Center
Official Emblem
Founded1 December 2014
Country Russian Federation
TypeCommand and control center
RoleProvide operational control over the Armed Forces
Part ofMinistry of Defense
HeadquartersZnamenka 19, Moscow
Nickname(s)"НЦУО", NTsUO (NDMC)
Engagements
Commanders
DirectorCol. Gen. Mikhail Mezentsev

Lieutenant General Mizintsev and Director of NDMC (2014).

Function

The center is considered as the second highest authority responsible for the Defense Ministry's management and supervision, after the Minister himself. It has the most powerful military supercomputer in the world called NDMC Supercomputer with a speed of 16 petaflops.

The center is located in the Main Building of the Ministry of Defense at Znamenka 19, Moscow, Russia.[1]

Computer network of the Center is based on the Russian military computer operating system Astra Linux[2], which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army.[3] Modernization with artificial intelligence software is underway.[4]

Chief of the National Defense Management Center

Since its establishment in late 2014, Lieutenant General Mikhail Mezentsev was appointed as the defense center's first director. He was promoted to Colonel General in 2017.

  • 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)
  • 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
gollark: You can ++remind yourself.
gollark: Although you could just run it on a command computer.
gollark: Look, if I could do that, I would have taken over AT LEAST three modded servers.
gollark: Also,t here's no code for blowing stuff up, *or* certain dates.
gollark: Computers can't do that much.

See also

References
  1. RF MOS website www.mil.ru accessed 5 January 2016.
  2. (in Russian) https://spbit.ru/news/n119990/
  3. https://sputniknews.com/russia/201801091060604846-russia-transfer-computers-domestic-software/
  4. https://tass.com/defense/1111737
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