Myongji University and SIA open Defense AI Center with Nearthlab, Pablo Air as founding partners

Satellite-imagery AI company SIA and Myongji University opened a Defense AI Center on the university's Natural Sciences Campus on August 21, 2026, an industry-academia platform that pairs university research space with SIA's equipment to field-test and validate defense AI, geospatial intelligence, ISR, and unmanned-systems technologies. Founding participant startups include Nearthlab, Seadronix, Pablo Air, Alice Group, Pebblous, and NSM. The center is framed explicitly as a demonstration ecosystem to help defense startups validate products faster, addressing the shortage of realistic test environments that Korean defense-tech founders routinely cite.