FortiTumaru participates in 'AWC: AI for Defense'

Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced that it will attend the 'AWC: AI for Defense' forum held in the first conference room of the National Assembly Members' Hall on the afternoon of the 28th, share defense-specific generative AI cases, and suggest the direction of defense AX (AI Transformation).

This forum is a place to look into the applicability of AI technology in the defense sector and future strategies, with major domestic and international defense AI companies such as Palantir, Dassault Systèmes, Hanwha Aerospace, SIA, and Quantum Aero participating to present their core technologies and practical application cases. FortyTwoMaru, a leading domestic generative AI company, will participate in a special panel session to introduce defense design automation and knowledge-based operation cases that integrate ultra-lightweight language models (sLLM), augmented search generation (RAG), and document automation technologies.

At this forum, Dong-Hwan Kim, CEO of FortiTumaru, will emphasize that “digital transformation of national defense and defense industry is no longer a choice, but a matter of survival,” and that “the inherent LLM and RAG-based sovereign defense AX, which have learned from real-world data, are the core axes of AI technology sovereignty and an essential alternative to respond to the rapidly changing battlefield environment.” In particular, he will share the feasibility of the defense AX, focusing on examples of generative AI-based design support systems and question-and-answer document analysis tools that are directly applied to domestic defense industry sites.

FortiTumaru is building an ultra-light language model-based design support system specialized for the aerospace and defense industry together with KAI (Korea Aerospace Industries). It is conducting a demonstration to simultaneously improve the speed of power generation and design quality by applying generative AI technology to complex aerospace design tasks such as structural design, quality certification, and standard review.

In addition, the military is jointly developing a generative AI-based QA system with KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) that can quickly interpret and utilize complex and unstructured military information such as maintenance manuals, parts drawings, and repair history. The goal is to overcome the limitations of existing search-based information exploration and maximize the practical work efficiency of field maintenance and repair units.

FortiTumaru CEO Kim Dong-hwan emphasized, “Sovereign Defense AX is a strategic asset that can simultaneously realize operational efficiency and information superiority,” and “FortiTumaru will contribute to the realization of technological sovereignty and innovation in future battlefields through defense-specific generative AI technology optimized for the defense and defense industry.”


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