Battle for "Eyes": Why do the Armed Forces use digital systems that have not taken into service
The document was published by the People's Deputy from the Servant of the People, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Alexander Fedienko in his Telegram.
In the published document, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn invited the following information from the Armed Forces Commissariat of the Armed Forces: "In the conditions of full -scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation, it is extremely important to prevent corruption during the digitalization of the Armed Forces and to stop the leakage of budgetary funds.
Oleksandr Fedienko commented on Yaroslav Yurchishin's appeal in his Telegram-channel, noting that every time it happens in the east of the country, discusses digital systems with servicemen that help them fight against the occupiers. These technologies are different, have different purposes and are already used in hostilities. However, none of these tactical systems have been adopted by the Armed Forces.
The People's Deputy emphasized that during the war, it is certainly necessary to put on the cyber attacks unified digital battle control systems and fight corruption, but stopping the work of the mentioned systems will play on the enemy's hand. "I think that combat military commanders should have the right to choose which CS is convenient and useful, not deputies, gratoids, and lobbyists. And all others, given and MO should take under a visor and introduce.
Used in "dark", - in a comment of focus Alexander Fedienko explained that, in his opinion, the aforementioned request can launch a series of procedures in the Ministry of Defense and as a consequence to stop digital systems already used by the Ukrainian military. My colleague meant that there was some corruption. I allow. But this should be done in such a way that our military is not left without digital systems, "Alexander Fedienko emphasized.
He emphasized that Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, the author of the appeal, works in the non -core committee. Alexander Fedienko suggests that he could have been a request Written with the purpose of lobbying of another digital system, which for some reason did not take root in the defense forces of Ukraine. No, he, of course, has the right, but at least it must be understood. Everything goes according to the classic scheme. Appeal, then law enforcement will come, suspicions will begin, and so on.
But again, this will suffer purely control and support of such systems, " - shared Fedienko. In conversation with focus, Alexander Fedienko noted that in the modern war, awareness of the enemy's actions at the tactical level is of paramount import The solution that comes from the battlefield in real time thanks to digital systems. Managing the battle or for artillery when they say "fatty goal", - said the People's Deputy.
Management in the form of an appendix, where the scouts send the coordinates of the goals so that the artillerymen can quickly give up and accurately impress them. "Without the work of these systems, it will be difficult to confront. Delta is a system of situational awareness of the enemy. A good system, I am sure that it is a future, but its integration is time," the politician emphasized.
When asked by Focus why these systems are still not in service with the Armed Forces, Oleksandr Fedienko said that this decision was within the competence of the Ministry of Defense, and the Defense Committee has collected representatives of the department many times and asked the same questions within the powers. As a result, the decision was never made. "Me and subcommittee that I head more interested in the question of cyberattack sustainability, scale, reservation, recovery.
But here it is impossible to blame purely the Ministry of Defense, the customer of such systems is the General Staff. In general, bureaucratic procedures, they kill any initiative and good decisions ", - added the People's Deputy. In April this year, the media also wrote about the Project Maven project from the Pentagon, which combined data of almost two dozen other programs of the Ministry of Defense and commercial sources into a general operational picture.
According to The New York Times, David Senger, Ukrainians quickly mastered technologies and created a kind of shadow Project Maven using commercial satellite firms, such as Maxar and Planet Labs, as well as data collected from Twitter and TELEGRA. According to Oleksandr Fedienko, in order to complete the use of systems such as Project Mann, you need to have the appropriate forces and means that AI can use.
According to the deputy, Ukraine does not own such resources and he is not aware of the use of American systems in the Armed Forces. Recall that a team of Ukrainian developers has created a software complex for collecting intelligence Griselda (Grizelda), which collects useful for military information from open and closed sources, analyzes, checks truthfulness and provides reports in the form of intelligence, and can interact with other systems as Delta. , Nettle, Armor.