areas of the Surkhandarya and Tashkent regions. Paramilitary and militarized forces The following institutions are uniformed and have military affiliations but are not part of the Armed Forces: National Security Service (SNB), the country's secret police Frontier Service (also called the Committee for State Border Protection of the National Security Service), the border guard of Uzbekistan. They have gotten into disagreements with the Kyrgyz Frontier Force in the Batken Region. The Frontier Service also operates the riverine naval assets of Uzbekistan, which include two Gyurza class gunboats. Internal Troops, they are commonly used against Islamic terrorists in the border regions near Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It maintains several Spetsnaz battalions: Scorpion Group Bars Uzbekistan National Guard also serves as a specialized elite force. Military industry In November 2017, at the initiative of President Mirziyoyev, the State Committee for Defense Industry () was created, serving as an authorized body of state administration responsible for the implementation of state defense orders and defense production organization. Abbreviated by the Russian term of Goskomoboronprom, it has developed the country's industrial potential in the field of production of military and dual-use products. Under the committee, a joint Uzbek-Turkish enterprise for the production of military uniforms was created. The following enterprises serve under the committee: State Unitary Enterprise Vostok State Enterprise CHARZ Center for Innovative Technologies TexMash RemTex KRANTAS In 2020, the first Uzbek light armored personnel carrier began the process of development. The APCs, known as the Tarlon and Qalqon light armored vehicles, was designed and manufactured at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex. It designed for the protection and tracking of convoys, sanitary transportation, engineering, radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance and fire support. Military education Higher education Under the Defence Ministry Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan (formerly the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School) Military Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and Communications Military Medical Academy (the former Military Medical Faculty of the Tashkent Medical Academy) Ground forces Chirchiq Higher Tank Command and Engineering School Samarkand Higher Military Automobile Command School Jizzakh Higher Military Technological University Air Force Higher Military Aviation School Under Paramilitary services Higher Military Customs Institute Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan Military-Technical Institute of the National Guard of Uzbekistan Institute of Civil Defense of the Ministry of Emergency Affairs NCO training In January 2001, Sergeant Training Schools were established in the Tashkent, Central, South-West and