Maybe someone haven’t heard yet, but Ukrainian coders from Zhytomyr Military Institute, named after S.Korolev won in NASA international competition Space Apps Challenge -2016: institute team have prestigious Hackathon (so called marathon for coders) event prize with their DronProtect project. Competition took place simultaneously in 170 countries around the world.
For 48 hours’ participants were solving issues connected with technologies, aeronautics, Solar system, interplanetary flights and other NASAs programs. PronProtect is project design in nomination “Don’t Crash My Drone”, where tusk was in programing of geo-informational system or operators of small drones (UAV – unmanned aerial vehicle). Such system will provide maximum information on weather conditions in operational area, provides Google positioning and defines closed for flights zone in 8km radius.
Now design of Ukrainian military applies for a grant and can be brought to life by NASA. Of course it is great and well expected for Ukrainian to participate and win in prestigious international competitions. But in my opinion government itself should be interested in such kind of design.
For example, there is wide governmental support program in Israel for high-tech development in UAV sphere. Millions dollars are allocated for their funding, specialized design bureau or even institutes are created, that work for the needs of army. No one thinks that this funds are wasted: apart from UAVs usage by both military and civil services, because of such support Israel is one of world’s leading country in high-tech sphere. Additionally, software sales bring billions to Israel budget. The math is simple: spend billions, receive security and billions back. How to explain this simple math to Ukrainian officials?
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