4차 산업혁명기술의 국방분야 적용 및 미래 전망

Abstract

The changes in the world security environment after the Cold War are portrayed with a variety of the conventional international terror, cyber terror, maritime crimes, environmental pollution, and drug-trafficking. Major characteristics of such changes are various and flexible in terms of types, subjects and speed involved with international terror, proliferation of WMD, non-military and supranational threats rather than large-scale military conflicts. In response to these kinds of currents, this paper searches for the 4th industrial revolution technology that can be applied to the security affairs by analyzing such application of advanced countries and national cases. It first illustrates the necessity of application of the 4th industrial revolution technology and development trends of advanced countries, and then proposes the possibility and future alternatives of applying such technology to the defense spheres. As we can see in the cases of advanced countries, the applied and expanded fields of 4th industrial revolution technology include IoT, Big Data, DBMS, AI, AR/VR, Robotics, Drone, 3D Printers, and so on. Among them, the possible development and utilization areas are AI, Big Data Analysis, AR/VR, and Robotics. This inquiry stresses that the South Korean government needs to strengthen the competitiveness edge on the national defense technology, establish an integration system of security and industrial capacity, and develop human resources equiped with required capability in the future society.