National Defense Management Center

National Defense Management Center
National Defense Management Center
Национальный центр управления обороной РФ
	Official Emblem of the center
Founded	1 December 2014
Country	Russian Federation
Branch	General Staff of the Armed Forces
Type	Command and control center
Role	Provide operational control over the Armed Forces
Size	Classified
Part of	Ministry of Defense
Headquarters	Znamenka 19, Moscow
Nickname(s)	"НЦУО", NTsUO (NDMC), (NDCC)
Engagements	Global War on Terrorism; Russian operation in Syria; Russian invasion of Ukraine;
Commanders
Director	Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev

55°44′56″N 37°36′8″E / 55.74889°N 37.60222°E / 55.74889; 37.60222

The National Defense Management Center, also known as the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) (Russian: Национальный центр управления обороной РФ, Natsional'nyi tsentr upravleniya oboronoi RF) 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.^[1]^[2]

The center is located in the Main Building of the Ministry of Defense at Znamenka 19, Moscow, Russia.^[3]

The computer network of the Center is based on the Russian military computer operating system Astra Linux by Rusbitech company,^[4] which in 2018 was declared the future ultimate standard for the Army.^{[citation needed]} Modernization with artificial intelligence software is underway.^[5]

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

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)
The National Defense Management Center (Control and Interaction 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
Colonel General Mizintsev (left), Admiral Igor Kostyukov (centre) and Head of GOMU [ru] Colonel General Burdinsky at a meeting, 29 January 2020