DX KOREA 2022 is the largest defense industry exhibition in Asia where you can see the current status of the Korean defense industry.

The event, held at KINTEX in Ilsan from the 21st to the 25th, was visited by military commanders from 17 countries including Slovakia (Ministry of National Defense/Minister), the UK, France, UAE, and Japan, and defense procurement agency heads from 9 countries including the US, Italy, and Singapore, demonstrating the changing power of K-defense.

The exhibition showcased various defense equipment and software, including Hyundai Rotem's next-generation active protection system, LIG ​​Nex1's compact high-performance synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, unmanned surface vehicles, multipurpose unmanned helicopters, Hanwha Defense's K9 self-propelled howitzers, K21, and Redback armored vehicles.

In particular, the intelligent control platform Direct C4I of 'MetaIEyes', a metaverse platform introduced by Naviworks, and the XR virtual training platform VTB-X received great attention from domestic and international visitors.

Founded in 2000, Naviworks is a company leading the digital transformation in the defense IT field, specializing in intelligent control and realistic virtual training services.

Direct C4I, an intelligent control platform, supports commanders’ decision-making through the analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data based on a geographic information system (GIS) and the battlefield situation in a wide area.

A Naviworks official said, “It has already been applied to the Army’s main C4I system and the Navy’s main ship combat system, achieving the localization of military command and control system software, advancement of intelligent control systems, and standardization of digital battlefields.” Currently, digital twins, AI, and big data technologies are integrating and evolving into an advanced control platform capable of spatial analysis, V-World, real-time monitoring, and data collection and management.

In particular, Naviworks introduced VTB-X (Virtual Training Block), an extended reality (XR) virtual training platform, at this event.

Naviworks said, “While carrying out various virtual training projects for the military, we found that there were common elements in the needs of customers, and we divided those common elements into software and hardware and modularized them.” They explained that if you select and integrate the necessary modules according to the purpose of the training like Lego blocks, you can easily create a single training system, and you can even build a training center with various VR, AR, MR, and XR configurations.

Naviworks’ virtual training development technology has already been proven in the Army’s chemical, biological, and radiological reconnaissance vehicle simulator, the Army Aviation Tactical Training Simulator, and the VR simulator developed by being selected as a global defense powerhouse, and the virtual training platform VTB-X is known to be applied to the XR realistic training of the police and fire department.

[Information and Communication Newspaper = Reporter Choi A-reum]

Source: Information and Communication Newspaper (http://www.koit.co.kr)