A conceptual approach to improving the information support of the prospective Armed Forces of Ukraine
Authors: Peredrii Oleksandr , Snitsarenko Petro , Sarychev Yurii , Zubkov Viktor 
Published: June 2024

The relevance of this article is due to the fact that modern armed conflicts lead to a change in the nature of military operations, which increasingly acquire an informational and technological nature, which forces the leadership of the leading countries of the world to review the theory and practice of the military construction in order to implement the concept of "network-centric war". This approach involves considering the control bodies, units, planes, ships, communications, and intelligence of the armed forces as objects connected to a single information and communication network. The capabilities of such a network-centric system of conducting military operations are determined by the capabilities of the entire group of objects connected to the network (synergistic effect). In the implementation of this concept, a key role belongs to the information support of objects of a single network, which has a number of components that need to be implemented in a networkcentric system of conducting military operations. The requirement for high operational efficiency of information support necessitates the widespread introduction of automated control systems (ACS) in such a system. At the same time, the information support of the objects of the unified network is the main purpose of the ACS, the means of which in automatic mode allow you to quickly display the situation, assess the terrain, the state of the enemy, your troops (forces), model the development of combat operations, develop options for solutions, draft combat documents, prove tasks to subordinates, control their execution. The article analyzes the experience of implementing information systems for managing thearmed forces of leading countries, the peculiarities of their organization and implementation in the armies of NATO member states. Based on the results of this analysis, approaches to determining ways to improve the information support of the control systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are proposed. One of the main tasks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Defence Forces) on the way to NATO membership is the creation of a network-centric military control system, which should be equipped with ACS and compatible with the Alliance's military control systems. Meanwhile, according to foreign publications, the level of automation of the control systems of the defense forces of Ukraine today is 2-2.5% compared to the armed forces of the leading countries in the world, in which ACS ensure the level of automation of C4ISR management functions (command, control, communication, informatization, intelligence, etc.). For this reason, at present, the state of information support for the management processes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Defense Forces) cannot be called satisfactory. Therefore, the implementation of C-shaped ACS (taking into account the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war) is a necessary condition for the implementation of reliable and sufficient for the implementation of network-centric principles of conducting operations (combat operations) in the prospective structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, the realization of such a conceptual approach to the implementation of information support (by its main types) in the C-shaped ACS will contribute to increasing the combat capabilities of the troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Defense Forces) in the modern conditions of conducting military operations. The materials of the article can be useful for the higher command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Defence Forces), as well as scientists and researchers in the field of information support and development of the defense sphere of the state.