LIG D&A Partners with Dtonic to Develop Defense-Specialized AI Platform

Advancing 'L-NODE' with Agentic AI
Strengthening Command and Control Capabilities

LIG Defense & Aerospace (LIG D&A) is partnering with AI platform specialist Dtonic to advance an AI-based "Software-Defined Defense" operational environment.

LIG D&A signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of the defense-specialized AI platform L-NODE with Dtonic at the LIG D&A Pangyo House. The signing ceremony was attended by LIG D&A’s Seungyoung Lee, Head of Technology Innovation Division (second from the left), Jinhoon Kim, Head of D2C Lab (left), Dtonic’s Yongju Jeon, CEO, Jinman Kwon, Vice President, and other senior executives from both companies. LIG D&A

LIG D&A announced on June 1 that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dtonic on May 29 at the Pangyo House for the development of a defense-specialized AI platform, L-NODE. Attending the signing ceremony were Seungyoung Lee, Head of Technology Innovation at LIG D&A, Jinhoon Kim, Head of D2C Lab, Jeonyong Joo, CEO of Dtonic, Vice President Jinman Kwon, and other senior officials from both companies.

This agreement was initiated to combine LIG D&A’s defense technology capabilities with Dtonic’s AI operating system (AI OS) technology, aiming to advance the technologies for combat management and command-and-control systems on the future battlefield.

L-NODE (LIG-Neural Ontology Decision Engine) is a defense-specialized platform that integrates ontology-based knowledge systems and agentic AI. It is being developed with the goal of enhancing the operation of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) and integrated operational capabilities through collaboration among defense AI systems in a battlefield environment that merges physical and cyber domains.

The development of L-NODE is being led by the newly established Technology Innovation Division at LIG D&A, which was created to secure future technologies in advance.

Dtonic’s AI platform 'D.Hub' will serve as the core engine for L-NODE. D.Hub handles the entire process from data collection to classification, processing, and analysis, and features a cloud-native structure that ensures stable operation even in secure environments.

Through this collaboration, the two companies plan to incorporate key technologies into L-NODE, including ontology-based tactical intelligence, hybrid RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), the real-time battlefield spatiotemporal data analysis engine 'Geo-Hiker,' and multi-agent systems (MAS).

Jinhoon Kim, Head of D2C Lab (CCO) at LIG D&A, said, "The two companies have accumulated experience in technology cooperation through joint development of AI-based naval combat systems," adding, "We will continue to advance L-NODE to contribute to strengthening the intelligent combat capabilities of our military."

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