The National Defense Management Center

The National Defense Management Center, also known as the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) (russian: Национальный центр управления обороной РФ, ) НЦУО, formerly the Central Command Post of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces is the supreme command and control center of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian Armed Forces.

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 the most powerful military supercomputer in the world 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 Znamenka 19, Moscow, Russia.

The computer network of the center is based on the Russian military computer operating system Astra Linux by Rusbitech company, which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army. Modernization with artificial intelligence software is underway.

Chief of the National Defense Management Center

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.

Gallery

File:National Defense Management Center.jpg, The facade of the National Defense Management Center
File:Military-practical conference on the results of the special operation in Syria (2018-01-30) 01.jpg, Vladimir Putin in National Defense Management Center
File:Национальный центр управления обороной Российской Федерации (зал управления и взаимодействия) 2.jpeg, The National Defense Management Center in Moscow
File:Владимир Путин прибыл в Национальный центр управления обороной Российской Федерации (зал управления и взаимодействия).jpeg, The National Defense Management Center in Moscow (Information hall)
File:Национальный центр управления обороной Российской Федерации (зал управления и взаимодействия) 1.jpeg, The National Defense Management Center (Control and Interaction Hall)
File:Vladimir Putin in National Centre for management of defence 03.jpg, Live briefings from different parts of Russia at the National Defense Management Center
File:Vladimir Putin in National Centre for management of defence 05.jpg, 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
File:Главы государств – членов ОДКБ в Национальном центре управления обороной РФ 05.jpeg, The heads of state of the CSTO member states at the Russian National Defense Management Center, 23 December 2014
File:Sergey Kuralenko (2016-02-27).jpg, Commander of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Lieutenant General Kuralenko briefs the press at the National Defense Management Center, 27 February 2016
File:Mikhail Mizintsev, Igor Kostyukov, Eugene Burdinsky (29-01-2020).jpg, Colonel General Mizintsev (left), Admiral Igor Kostyukov (centre) and Head of Colonel General Burdinsky at a meeting, 29 January 2020

See also

* National Military Command Center (United States)
* Military citadels under London (United Kingdom)

References

External links

Official Homepage
{{Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Military command and control installations
2014 establishments in Russia
Ministry of Defence (Russia)