Russian Defense Ministry has ordered a system for monitoring and analysis of the political and socio-economic situation in the world, which will work on open source data in multiple languages, to predict on the basis of their development environment and offer military leadership options . Running and testing is scheduled for completion in 2016. Experts note ambitions Sergey Shoigu, who seeks to expand the field of the military.
On the creation of hardware and software complex analysis of the military-political situation (PAK VPO) and analysis of the socio-political as well as social -ekonomicheskoy situation in the country (PAC OPS) said on Wednesday “instrument-United Corporation”, a member of Rostec.
«We have developed proprietary algorithms automatic data collection, processing and classification, as well as models of peer review and possible development options. The system allows you to collect information, compile and process the request on the logical and semantic search. It runs continuously in the current time mode, processing open sources of information, and thus, at any time, provides the latest data on interesting request, whether the situation in the Far East, or anywhere in the world “- said the CEO of the holding” Control Systems “Andrew Riznyk. His words leads the official website “UIC».
He said that with the help of these complexes solved a number of important tasks:
«representation of the Russian Defense Ministry officials information about the most important events in the country and abroad, modeling scenarios for the environment, preparation of proposals to management in automatic mode ».
« Our system is able to select the flow of information the world media messages that are to a given request, translate foreign text, analyze it and include data in the statistics and the final material. Similarly, (is) and a system of automatic translation quality speech into text. To solve these problems, we have existing programs and adapt them to our problems, “- said Riznyk.
According to him, Packie will analyze not only the printed text and digital TV, but also broadcasting, working with materials live broadcast. Furthermore, the system can recognize the image and is able to identify people and objects. The complex also read news ticker and treated radio piece.
«Since the main objective of the system – to form a picture of the day, in the selection of sources, the emphasis is on-line information: news media and websites, social networks, blogs. In social networks, the system analyzes the frequency of statements on the subject, their estimated “- added Riznyk.
The system will be based at the National Center Management defense of the country, opened in December 2014. In the initial stages of hardware and software systems will work with 5-6 languages in the future their number may be increased.
Experts interviewed by “Gazetoy.Ru” believe that not all of the declared objectives of the work will be able to perform .
So, according to the president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkova,
Russian programmers are able to create a system of this level, but the hardware is completely foreign.
«special mathematical software that will solve the problem of information gathering and analysis, will be Russian. And it will be effective, I do not doubt it. But the hardware is in foreign parts, because we do not manufacture such equipment. In addition, keep in mind that the main source of these data is the Internet, and the Internet is built on the American software and hardware based on the US “, – said Sivkov.
Sivkov sure that data from an automated system, shall not be exposed directly to the leadership of the Defense Ministry, as may contain false information, distort the picture of the world.
«open source, you can collect a lot of information. But we must understand that in the public domain is placing materials that orienteering purposeful formation of certain images. Level analysis is needed, “What would it say” that no system can not do, “- said Sivkov.
In addition, the system will inevitably take into account the information from the network, which is known to be the fake character, but with software point of view is no different from the present.
«Fakes and forgeries will distort the information. In addition, the opponent, knowing of the existence of such a system will be able to campaign for the formation of the desired effect of information, and it is simply too dangerous ».
To avoid this, information from the system should not receive the officers of the Control Center national defense, and analysts Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, says Sivkov.
From the fact that the military will be difficult to get an objective picture of the world with such tools, agrees and chief editor of the site Agentura.ru, security expert Andrei Soldatov.
According to him, the Defense Ministry is not in this activity necessary experience, as first information security are FAGCI, then these powers in 2003, distributed between the FSB and SVR FSO.
At the same time, he noted that after the “Arab Spring”, almost all governments and intelligence agencies of the world engaged in monitoring social networks: “Everything, down to the Moscow mayor’s office, use a system of monitoring social networks and open sources “- said Soldatov.
soldiers feared that the people in the Ministry of Defense” gross incompetence “in the information sphere, and predicts that the Defense Ministry will monitor all in a row, under the” military action “implying any criticism of the authorities in social networks: “The military can raise the stakes in the crisis. Come to the president and say that we are against information aggression, and we have to respond to it. The chief of the General Staff Gerasimov “Military-Industrial Courier” was an article where he spoke about the new types of aggression such information ».
In turn, the head of the Political expert group Konstantin Kalachev notes that the Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu trying to cover areas of work that go well beyond the immediate tasks the Ministry of Defense.
«The Ministry of Defence is preparing for the new kind of war. Regional conflicts, including in the Donbass, really make this information relevant and useful. But in fact, the Defense Ministry intends to compete in this field and with the FSB and SVR. Shoigu Ministry of Defense does supervedomstvom. As before he did it with the MOE. All of these tools further raise the importance and opportunities, and the Ministry of Defence and the Minister.
Of course, it amplifies it in all respects, including the hypothetical hardware struggle. Big ambitions in humans, more than the Defense Ministry “, – concluded the expert.
Finally, the deputy director of the Levada Center Alexei Grazhdankin noted that the Defense Ministry will be able to use the system to monitor the media and the blogosphere to study the growth of discontent among the population
«If the task is to study the population of the country, it is inefficient because of the convenience sample, and if the task is assigned to study the growth of discontent, growing protest activity, it is quite an effective tool. As for social networks, you can judge the mood of the most active part of the population, and this is enough to make significant conclusions about the shift in public opinion ».
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