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| Major General Dương Minh Hải, Director of the Military Science Department below the Ministry of National Defence. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu |
Major General Dương Minh Hải, Director of the Military Science Department below the Ministry of National Defence speaks to the Quân đội Nhân dân (People’s Army) Newspaper concerning the army’s efforts to obtain breakthroughs in analysis, technological mastery and the event of strategic defence merchandise
How has the Military Science Department suggested the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence on advancing army science and know-how?
The division has taken a proactive function in advising the fee and the Minister of National Defence on insurance policies, mechanisms and plans to advance science and know-how in addition to innovation, in assist of army modernisation and nationwide defence.
In latest years, the division has proposed and commissioned a variety of analysis initiatives targeted on creating high-tech weapons and army tools of strategic significance. These initiatives incorporate a number of foundational and core technologies, with many analysis institutes, academies and army instructional institutions endeavor the analysis, design and manufacturing of such methods for the primary time. Beyond delivering tangible merchandise, the programmes are supposed to strengthen home analysis capabilities, construct technological self-reliance and domesticate a extremely expert scientific workforce for each the army and the nation.
Research and innovation actions have been carried out throughout the armed forces in a coordinated and decided method, producing vital outcomes. The ministry has accepted a lot of newly developed merchandise, notably these involving strategic technologies.
These large-scale initiatives require mastery of a number of core and enabling technologies, substantial funding and superior scientific experience, laying a stable basis for the following technology of recent weapons and army tools. Alongside analysis and manufacturing, the ministry has additionally prioritised programmes aimed toward working, sustaining and offering technical assist for high-tech weapons, thereby enhancing technical assist capabilities and bettering fight readiness throughout the armed forces.
What are the principle challenges dealing with army scientific analysis and the way can they be addressed?
There are three main challenges.
First, many technologies required to manufacture superior weapons and army tools are topic to export restrictions or know-how switch controls. At the identical time, strategic defence merchandise combine a number of foundational and core technologies, a lot of that are being researched in Việt Nam for the primary time. As a outcome, analysis groups should develop technological experience whereas finishing up the analysis itself. In addition, home laboratories, analysis and testing amenities, measurement capabilities and supporting industries nonetheless face a lot of limitations.
Second, the workload in science and know-how is increasing quickly, with a number of nationwide precedence programmes being applied concurrently, whereas the availability of extremely certified personnel stays restricted, notably chief engineers and main scientists.
Third, some items proceed to face difficulties in implementation, coordination amongst businesses and items has but to be absolutely synchronised, and the applying of insurance policies and mechanisms relating to science, know-how and innovation stays inconsistent.
To overcome these obstacles and take away bottlenecks, the division has suggested the fee and the ministry to undertake a complete package deal of measures. These embrace strengthening the accountability of Party committees and commanding officers in any respect ranges in directing science and know-how duties, absolutely harnessing the experience of the scientific group, additional bettering institutional frameworks and insurance policies, establishing robust and specialised analysis groups, and choosing main scientists and chief engineers to oversee main initiatives.
The ministry may also proceed investing in analysis infrastructure, key laboratories and testing and measurement capabilities. At the identical time, it’ll develop scientific and technological cooperation each inside and past the army, make higher use of nationwide science and know-how assets, broaden worldwide collaboration, strengthen monetary oversight, and preserve common inspection and supervision to promptly resolve points arising throughout venture implementation.
What would be the division’s priorities in implementing the Minister of National Defence’s directive to ‘resolve to analysis and produce weapons and army tools, overcome challenges, and make sure that though we begin later, we don’t fall behind’?
The calls for positioned on the army science sector will proceed to develop, requiring not solely well timed implementation but additionally larger high quality and better technological self-reliance.
In line with the route of the fee and the ministry, the division will proceed advising on the efficient implementation of analysis programmes to develop strategically vital weapons and army tools throughout the 2025-30 interval, making certain that science, know-how and innovation duties are accomplished on schedule, obtain their goals and ship most effectiveness.
The division will work carefully with related businesses inside and outdoors the armed forces to tackle coverage, useful resource and implementation challenges. It will intensify inspections, steerage and supervision to speed up key analysis programmes, whereas selling administrative reform and digital transformation in army science administration.
It may also improve the usage of specialised databases, army science administration software program and high quality administration methods compliant with the ISO 9001:2015 commonplace to enhance command, coordination and operational effectivity.
In line with the Minister of National Defence’s strategic imaginative and prescient, the division will capitalise on the benefits obtainable to late-developing nations by selectively adopting superior scientific and technological achievements from overseas. This strategy goals to shorten the analysis, improvement and know-how acquisition cycle whereas enabling leapfrog advances in strategically vital defence fields.
To fulfil its assigned duties, the division will concentrate on refining institutional frameworks, modernising science and innovation governance, accelerating the event of strategic digital infrastructure and knowledge assets, and enhancing its advisory function in figuring out precedence areas for mastering and creating strategic, foundational and core technologies.
The efforts are supposed to assist the event of an autonomous, self-reliant, dual-use and fashionable defence trade, whereas selling basic scientific analysis that gives the information base obligatory to strengthen the nation’s long-term strategic autonomy in creating and producing superior army tools. — VNS