What will be the battlefield of the future? What method solutions will dominate them and can the Polish manufacture deliver them to the Polish Army? This, as well as the request to strengthen cooperation between state-owned armed forces and the private sector, was discussed at the conference “Modern technologies for state security” in Warsaw.
Yesterday in Warsaw, representatives of the Polish Army, manufacture experts, analysts, scientists, delegates of the national and abroad arms industry, as well as politicians and local government took part in a one-day conference, which was held under the patronage of the Minister of Interior and Administration, the Head of the National safety Office and the Academy of War Art.
The conference was opened by Minister of Interior and Administration, peculiar Services Coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak. In his speech he emphasized that Poland must be based on the best, most modern solutions to build its security. There's no safety without technology. safety levels are determined by data available to the state or organisation, and technologies utilized in border protection," he said.
Combine state and private potential
Siemoniak pointed out that it is besides crucial that Polish specialists work on national solutions. – A long-term approach and an thought is needed to advance innovation and fresh technologies. The state must see creative and ambitious people who have fresh ideas and go beyond conventional career paths. It is under these conditions that innovative solutions are born – he stressed and added that innovation should be sought not only in the state part of the economy, but besides in private sector initiatives, with which he believes companies should combine their state forces. "This possible needs to be consolidated and synergies sought between state funds and private companies. tiny Polish companies have large possible – the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs provided.
Krzysztof Paszyk besides spoke about the request for a long-term strategy for the improvement of modern Polish technologies. “National safety is not just forging on the battlefield. present it is worth showing that national safety is besides investigation in laboratories, it is specifically focused on the improvement of fresh technologies of the factory, it is an manufacture that produces for security, and it is yet a strong economy without which it will not be safe," he emphasized the politicians.
Which way to modernity?
The conference "Modern Technologies for State Security" was divided into 3 sessions: "Can Europe defend itself?" "Transitional investments – what does the army request from industry? What can manufacture offer the army?" and "Polish defence manufacture – development, exports, directions of global cooperation".
The first session dominated the subject of the war in Ukraine and the geopolitical changes caused by the fresh president of the United States. The panel participants argued, among others, about how much Europe should build its own defence capabilities, and how much it should trust on an alliance with the US. "We must strive, we must do everything we can to make the capabilities of European NATO members, due to the fact that that is what Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty requires of us. And since I believe in Article 3, I besides believe in Article 5. Collective defence is an highly crucial component of our reasoning about the improvement of capabilities," stressed Gen. Dyw. pil. Cezary Wiśniewski, Deputy Commander-General of the types of armed forces. Gen. Guns pil. in st. rest. Jan Śliwa stated that it was crucial that Europe should make its command capacity, especially in the air domain.
The second session discussed 3 types of solutions that could dominate the battlefield of the future – unmanned aircraft, artificial intelligence and quantum computers. The participants agreed that we were not asking ‘if’ but ‘when’ they would become crucial to the military in its actions. The drones are here., which shows clearly the war in Ukraine, and artificial intelligence and quantum computers are the position of the current decade.
The last session of the conference was devoted to the future of the Polish arms industry. Its participants stressed that the challenges presently facing Poland in the context of the request for fast strengthening of defence capabilities require the implementation of the rule of "all hands on board" in industry. – The state-owned armory must work much more closely with private companies, exploit their production and intellectual possible – indicated panelists.
