Electronics and optics news

The People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic recorded the operation of an electronic warfare station (EW) of Ukrainian security forces in the area of three Kiev-controlled settlements near the contact line in the Donbass, the press service of the LPR defense ministry told reporters.

The State Duma has introduced a bill on the "landing" of foreign IT companies in Russia, obliging large foreign Internet companies to open official representative offices in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree according to which it is planned to allocate 5.26 billion rubles until 2024 to support business in the implementation of pilot projects for the introduction of artificial intelligence in various sectors of the economy. 

The Russian government intends to make it more difficult for state customers to purchase foreign software and equipment, writes Kommersant with reference to the director of the "Center of Competence for Import Substitution in the field of ICT" Ilya Massukh.

In 2017, the defense agency DARPA sponsored the University of Michigan for $3.6 million to work on the "Morpheus"computer processor project. Three years later, it was ready and large-scale tests began with the involvement of accredited hackers and information security specialists. Of the 525 participants, none managed to crack the chip because it changed its architecture every 0.1 seconds.

According to the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, hurricanes have become more destructive due to the process of global warming

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is creating a new Earth system observatory to predict and monitor climate change and natural disasters. This is stated in a statement issued on Monday by the press service of NASA.

The State Corporation is working to promote virtual reality complexes with Lomonosov Moscow State University, other universities, Sirius, and schools

Virtual reality complexes that are being created at Roscosmos can be used in geography lessons using remote sensing data from space. This opinion was expressed by the director of the Digital Development Department of Roscosmos Konstantin Shadrin.

The number of spacecraft serviced by the enterprise will increase from 45 to 482 from 2024 to 2035

The head scientific institute of Roscosmos-TsNIIMash assumes that the company's revenue from near-Earth space monitoring and satellite protection services on the international market by 2035 may amount to 1.2 billion rubles. This is stated in the materials of the institute, available to TASS.

Automated storage systems (ACC) were installed in a number of workshops of the V. P. Chkalov NAZ, a branch of PJSC Sukhoi (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec Group).

This satellite was launched on March 2, 2010 and entered the system on March 28, 2010. The last time it was taken out for maintenance in December 2020

The Russian communication satellite "Glonass-M" No. 732 (23rd point) is temporarily withdrawn from the grouping, according to the website of the information and analytical center for coordinate-time and navigation support of the GLONASS system.

The latest radar "Yenisei" - a super-modern and versatile means of aerial reconnaissance, capable of tracking even hypersonic targets-has been adopted. This was reported by the weekly newspaper "Zvezda".

Roscosmos intends to create a device that will transmit data on the location of children and the elderly in the event of their disappearance via satellites. This was announced on Tuesday, May 25, by Alexander Bloshenko, Executive Director of the State Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science, speaking at Skolkovo .

The head of the concern, Yan Novikov, said that the Russian Nebo-M radar station is capable of detecting the latest low-visibility combat aircraft, including the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighters.

The authorities of countries around the world have entered a new "arms race", in the role of which now act as semiconductors, writes CNBC. The publication calls semiconductors "the blood of today's global economy", pointing to their demand in many industries, primarily in microelectronics and the defense industry.

The corporation said that they are on the way to developing a commercial quantum computer. Its creation is expected to be completed by 2029.

During the joint training with the EW units, the specialists worked out the issues of conducting aerial reconnaissance, covertly moving to the specified objects and transmitting digital information via secure communication channels.

The state corporation noted that an interesting direction is the use of remote sensing data in a virtual reality helmet

Russian tour operators are interested in the VR complexes created in Roscosmos for the development of virtual tourism. This was announced by the director of the Digital development Department of the state corporation Konstantin Shadrin.

In recent years, there have been more crimes committed using information and telecommunications technologies. And the detection rate of such crimes is still at a low level - no more than 25 percent. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. Specific figures have also been released. Last year, a sharp increase in such attacks was recorded - 510 thousand, which is 73 percent more than in 2019.

In the Moscow region, with the commanders of the batteries of multiple rocket launchers of the Kantemirov Division of the Guards Tank Red Banner Army, the ZVO conducted a training session on shooting and fire control on a modern simulator "Arterra-VT-3D".

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law that, in the event of threats to national security, gives the authorities the right to restrict the operation of telecommunications networks in the republic, the National Legal Internet Portal reported on Monday.