Basic research consists of theoretical and practical works regarding security policies on a yearly basis, purporting to enhance medium-term policy facilitation as well as specialized education and security research. In 2005, the main research themes were as follows:
Security Policy Division
- Efficient Management of Military Organization and Budget
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· Research on military reform legislation: concentrating on French military reform
· Research on power structure to achieve a more efficient National Security
· Security implications and responding strategies regarding China's rapid emergence
· Research on "phantom orders" within the military logistic system
· Securing military budget in terms of the rapidly aging population · Regional Security Issues; ROK Security Conception and Development
· Assessment of world security environment
· Implications of Northeast Asia's regionalism and the formation of its security discourse body
· Study on the direction of Japanese security policy changes in reference to Japan's constitutiona amendment discussion
· NATO's transition and its resulting implications on the ROK-U.S. alliance
· The U.S.'s flexible strategies to sustain hegemony in terms of democratic expansion policy
North Korean Affairs Division
- North Korea's Current Situation and the ROK's Security Policies
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· The increasing correlation between security policy and South-North Korean economic exchange
· Analysis of the ROK's military forces' perception regarding its military superiority against North Korea's forces
· Trends of governing pattern across Kim Jung-Il's ten-year reign and their prospect
Military Affairs Division
- Defense Policy Changes in Foreign Countries and the ROK's Military Transformation
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· Military thoughts
· U.S. military transformation
· Military conflicts
· Defense reform
· Research on strategic planning geared toward self-reliant defense in consideration of the USFK's realignment as well as inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation · Studies of Policy and Academic Areas on Multilateral Security Affairs
· A feasibility study of Northeast Asia defense talks
· Strategies for counter-transnational threats in Northeast Asia
· Strategies for multilateral security cooperative arrangement through a case studies of NATO and OSCE
· Study of the connectivity between economic cooperation and security cooperation in Northeast Asia
· Study of the establishment of ARF's staff college
Defense Information and Science Division
- Efficient Management of Defense R&D and Digitization Projects
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· Study on cost estimation methods pertaining to each acquisition phase in various defense R&D projects
· Application of ACTD in the process of defense R&D development
· Improvement of information security supervision regarding defense digitization projects
· Study on the optimal allocation model of SAM-X
· Study for the support of flight pass information using GIS
· Study to enhance confidence levels of defense modeling simulation
Defense Resource Management Division
- Effectiveness and Efficiency of Resource Allocation & Management
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· Efficiency analysis of overseas defense industry to strengthen Korea defense industrial base
· Method to advance defense Planning, Programing, Budgeting, and Executing System (PPBES) concentrating on performance · management
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Seeking rational requirement management methods to enhance forecast capabilities
· Current situation and improvement methods of replacement service system in an enlistment
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