On the initiative of Gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak, erstwhile commander of the Land Army and erstwhile Deputy Minister of Defence on 30 January this year, the first cluster of autonomous technologies was created in Poland. The General managed to call on Polish companies dealing with modern technologies and encourage them to cooperate for the military.
The guest of the “War Front” podcast is simply a associate of the cluster, Paweł Pisarczyk, CEO of Pheonix Systems and creator of the only Polish, but besides the unique worldwide operating strategy Phoenix-RTOS.
Raphael Guz / PAPGeneral Waldemar Skrzypczak
“Silence Valley is full of Polish engineers”
The podcast leader asked the guest whether technology companies are and are developing in Poland, or possibly in this respect we are a homestead. “There is simply a belief that the Ukrainians are doing large here, that they have excellent scientists, and that Belarus and even Russia go head-on with them. There is small talk about Poland. We don’t have scientists?” asked Marcin Wybrze.
— You praise others, we do not know our own,” replied the writer. “I do not know why it is not the fact that Polish scientists usually win IT Olympics. This has its deep traditions in the Polish mathematics school. We have always been superb in abstract sciences, which is why Silicon Valley is full of Polish engineers. Unfortunately, most very good specialists work abroad for Western corporations,” said Pisarczyk.
Why did the Polish manufacture or the military not benefit from the possible of specified people?
The following is simply a further part of the text and the full conversation in video format:
“The Polish technology manufacture has always had many complexes. erstwhile I started my adventure with computer discipline in the 90s, I utilized to hear that let's not invent anything fresh ourselves, that we would always be overtaken by the Chinese or Americans, and we were besides small. We've had a major technological crisis over the years, and we've had to import technology. But the planet has changed. present we have young Polish companies that have the possible to make their own technologies from scratch. The problem is that neither the government nor the military see this potential. But the gene saw us. The violinist and suggested that we congregate and organize in a cluster,” says Pisarczyk.
The General understood the problem.
It besides tells how it happened. - This is gonna sound like an anecdote. I erstwhile listened to an interview with the General. He talked about investigation programs in the field of weapons. Then I thought I should meet the General. I thought we'd get along. erstwhile specified a gathering happened and we started talking about technology, the general said that we as a software company are already in the 21st century. He saw that we can program high-level, not pretend to be programmers. During this first conversation, the gene. Skrzypczak told me a very interesting thing: “Mr. Of course I said yes due to the fact that I know a lot
companies like that. At the time, we felt that we had to connect these companies, we had to do something so that their potential, which is truly very big, was yet exploited by the Polish state,” says Pisarczyk.
When asked precisely what technological companies in Poland do, Pisarczyk mentioned those that produce electronics, microelectronics, new, unique materials, or those that can print from microstructure titanium powders. “This is all in our country, but this possible is scattered. Hence the thought of a cluster. The goal was to unite and learn to work together, but besides with the army,” he replied. At the same time, he admitted that most companies concentrated in the cluster had already held talks with the army separately, and that there were ones working for it.
— But the problem that I see in the military is that it takes quite a few time from words to deeds. There are many conversations, many planning, but there are no results,” Pizarczyk emphasizes.
As an example, he gave a tender that the military announced to build an autopilot for various types of unmanned vehicles. “I was happy to say that something was changing in the military about fresh technologies. However, 7 months have passed and we are inactive in the process of talking, and this is only a feasibility survey of the project. In innovation, the planet has accelerated. Any postponement of the task will make us late. I truly do not realize the large inertia of the army, and I believe that this is his biggest problem," stressed president of the Pheonix System, adding that unlike Poland, our opponent, Russia, has done a lesson in this area.
— I am observing what Russia is doing in relation to the conflict in Ukraine in terms of technology, and I see that it is systematically addressing, for example, unmanned vehicles. In 2017, Zala was established there, which develops these most deadly drones, the Lancet type, which hit autonomously. Russia, even though it is simply a corrupt country, has mobilized and is moving forward. However, we in Europe, in Poland, believe that we have quite a few time," Pizarczyk emphasizes.
SERGEI ILNITSKY / PAPPresentation of ZALA Lancet drones
The net of Things — A Ticking Bomb
The guest "War Fronts" is the author of the Phoenix-RTOS operating system, utilized on the net of things. — The thought of writing Phoenix was born at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1999 during my studies. I thought we should do the operating strategy from scratch. Back then, I was a fantasy, I was crazy, but I insisted. I wrote the first testicle. Then I corrected them. For the last 11 years, I've been fighting to commercialize him. We did it. There were people who believed in this project. The programme has been utilized in smart energy meters in Belgium, among others. Then we entered drones and systems,” says Pisarczyk.
The leaders asked whether Polish troops were curious in this strategy as well. The author replied that various operating systems frequently based on an open system, called Linux, are utilized in military weapons. However, this is not the standard in the world. Americans have their own closed systems. The Chinese besides began to make their own solutions.
Pisarczyk admitted that the Polish military began to look at the Phoenix strategy with large curiosity. — On the military side, whether military colleges are aware that having an operating strategy that is written from scratch, auditable, Polish, creates a gigantic technological advantage. This strategy can besides be easy adapted to various types of devices. Only the strategy itself isn't enough. There must be an industry, in this case a military manufacture that will benefit from it,” says Pisarczyk.
He adds that the improvement of drones means that their manufacturers request to look for specified software that allows drones to execute missions in airspace, cooperate with aircraft, decision packages, transfer organs to transplant, etc. “Therefore, this programming must be certified and safe to use,” he stresses.
He pulled out, recalled that the Polish services have been buying Chinese drones for years, although they are aware of the danger involved. So he asked the podcast guy to comment on the situation.
— We have been talking about these threats as European manufacture for a long time. Let me give you an example. We have critical infrastructure, or energy systems, in which we install Chinese meters due to the fact that they are cheaper. But if specified a Chinese counter had received a radio signal, it could have cut off a million farms. In the country, we have a blackout, says Pisarczyk. He adds that Poland has long been flooding Chinese electronic equipment connected to the network, as well as their drones or cameras.
— These cameras are sending the video to the Internet, but we don't know who the end user is. It may turn out that through them the enemy will monitor the targets, see where the troops are, weapons magazines, etc., he mentions. “I want to say that the safety of devices, the safety of the net of things lies with us. erstwhile everyday devices were connected to the Internet, they became a ticking time bomb.
Paweł Pisarczyk, president of Athens Industries and Phoenix System, associate of the Board of the National Chamber of Commerce for Electronics and Telecommunications, president of the Smart Grid Networks Section, BCC expert on digitisation and modern technologies. Software engineer, manager with more than 25 years of experience in product development. Winner of the 2016 Visionary Award (Journal of Law Newspapers) and the Mark Cara Award for achieving fresh technologies. Author of Phoenix-RTOS operating system.
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