The National Defense Management Center (, (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. 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."
Function
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.
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, https://spbit.ru/news/n119990/ which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army. Modernization with artificial intelligence software is underway.
National Defense Management Center Head 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.
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See also National Military Command Center (United States) Military citadels under London (United Kingdom) Presidential Situation Center (Russia)
References
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
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