K-MOSA, From Research to the Field…

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5 November 2026 (Thu) 13:00

K-MOSA, From Research to the Field…

Ministry of National Defense · Agency for Defense Development Hold K-MOSA Achievements Sharing Conference

- Discussion on future development directions including application to defense acquisition, standardization, and institutionalization

- Approximately 300 participants from defense, research institutions, industry, and academia in attendance

□ The Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the Agency for Defense Development held the「2026 K-MOSA Development Achievements Sharing Conference」at the Peace & Park Convention of the War Memorial of Korea on the afternoon of Thursday, 5 November.

◦ This achievements sharing conference was organized to share, both internally and externally, the major outcomes of the K-MOSA (Korea Modular Open Systems Approach) policy pursued to date, and for the purpose of discussing future development directions.

◦ Approximately 300 experts from the Ministry of National Defense (MND), the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), each branch of the military, defense research institutions, defense industry companies, and academia attended the event.

□ The K-MOSA policy is a technical design and acquisition strategy that modularizes weapon systems in order to respond to rapid technological advancement and changes in the future battlefield environment, and enables new technologies and components to be applied more flexibly based on open interfaces and standards.

◦ Through this, the aim is to support the rapid application of technology and continuous performance improvement for advanced weapon systems, and to lay the groundwork for more broadly applying excellent technologies from industry and the private sector to the defense field.

◦ At this achievements sharing conference, K-MOSA policies and research outcomes pursued to date were comprehensively shared, including ▲ the policy direction for advancing K-MOSA and ▲ the results of developing common architectures for each battlefield domain and in the AI/autonomous field.

□ This event places emphasis not merely on introducing research outcomes, but on jointly discussing the next steps for connecting the accumulated achievements to actual acquisition and research and development sites.

◦ Going forward, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) plans to continue developing the relevant foundations in cooperation with related agencies and academia so that the K-MOSA policy can be utilized across the entire life cycle of advanced unmanned weapon systems.

□ MND Assistant Vice Minister Won Jong-dae stated, "This achievements sharing conference is an occasion to confirm K-MOSA's accomplishments to date and, at the same time, to jointly discuss the next steps for connecting them to actual acquisition and research and development sites," and added, "We will continue to develop the foundations through which new technologies can be applied to the defense field more rapidly and flexibly, based on cooperation among industry, academia, research institutions, and the military." <End>

Division in Charge

Manned-Unmanned Teaming Systems Division, Defense Artificial Intelligence Planning Bureau

Person Responsible

Director General

Jeon Jun-beom

(02-748-5400)

Officer in Charge

Division Chief

Hwang Yo-bi

(02-748-5430)