According to the ministry, one of the most significant events will be the congress " Diversification of the Defense Industry. Transformation of the production base"
KUBINKA (Moscow region). August 22. /TASS/. The scientific and business program of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", which started on Sunday, will allow determining priority areas for the development of the military-industrial complex, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
"The key event of the first day, which makes it possible to determine the priority areas for the development of the military-industrial complex, will be a plenary session on artificial intelligence technologies, which will later be widely used in the creation of promising complexes and systems for military purposes," the message distributed at the forum said.
According to the Ministry of Defense, one of the most significant events will be the congress " Diversification of the Defense Industry. Transformation of the production base", organized by the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation with the support of the Russian government. The plenary session of the congress will be held under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.
"A wide representation of the scientific and business community will be provided by the congress "Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age and Artificial Intelligence Technologies", organized by the Russian Defense Ministry with the participation of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. The plenary session will be held under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, " the message reads.
The agency informs that the program of the forum provides for holding 211 events and by their number exceeds the indicators of last year, then there were 186. " The scientific and business program promises to surpass the scope of previous years not only in its scale, but also in the abundance of formats, including due to the length increased to five days. The main forms of holding traditionally will be congresses, conferences, round tables, briefings, business meetings, departmental and interdepartmental meetings, " the report says. It was noted that in 2021, a series of exposition events of the military innovative technopolis "ERA"will complement the scientific and business program.
To expand the geography during the forum events, it is planned to use the capabilities of video conferencing, which will significantly expand the number of participants in the discussion, as well as demonstrate the functionality of equipment and weapons in real time. 18 cities will participate, according to the Ministry of Defense. Representatives of the Pacific, Black Sea, Baltic and Northern Fleets will take part in one interactive platform of round tables of the Navy in real time and at a distance of thousands of kilometers, and all divisions and the Ryazan Airborne Command School will be connected to discussions on the development of equipment and weapons of the Airborne Forces in the teleconference mode.
