국방분야 빅데이터 분석의 활용가능성에 대한 고찰

Recently, one of the core keywords in information technology (IT) as well as areas such as business managementis big data. Big data is a term that includes technology, personnel, and organization required to gather/manage/analyzecollection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to manage and analyze using traditional tools. The military has been accumulating data for a long period due to the organization's characteristic in placing emphasison reporting and records. Considering such characteristic of the military, this study verifies the possibility of improvingthe performance of the military organization through use of big data and furthermore, create scientific developmentof operation, strategy, and support environment. For this purpose, the study organizes general status and case studiesrelated to big data, traces back examples of data utilization by Korean's national defense sector through US militarydata collection and case studies, and proposes the possibility of using and applying big data in the national defensesector.