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
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) is the govern ...
and the
Russian Armed Forces
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.
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
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of the
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
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, overseen by the
Chief of the General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces (militaries), the head of the military staff.
List
* Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (United States)
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. 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
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,
Russia
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.
The computer network of the center is based on the Russian military
computer operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also inc ...
Astra Linux
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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
Mikhail Yevgenyevich Mizintsev (russian: Михаил Евгеньевич Мизинцев; born 10 September 1962) is a Russian colonel general currently serving as the deputy minister of defence of Russia for overseeing logistics since 24 Sep ...
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
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty has ...
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
The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, officially known as the Centre for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring in the Syrian Arab Republic, founded 23 February 2016, states that it is a "peace monitoring center an ...
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
Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov (russian: И́горь Оле́гович Костюко́в; born 21 February 1961) is a Russian naval officer. , he is the Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU).
Military career ...
(centre) and Head of Colonel General Burdinsky at a meeting, 29 January 2020
See also
*
National Military Command Center
The National Military Command Center (NMCC) is a Pentagon command and communications center for the National Command Authority (i.e., the President of the United States and the United States Secretary of Defense). Maintained by the Department o ...
(United States)
*
Military citadels under London
A number of military citadels are known to have been constructed underground in central London, dating mostly from the Second World War and the Cold War. Unlike traditional above-ground citadels, these sites are primarily secure centres for defen ...
(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)