the U.S. has spent billions to digitize its fighting forces. Ukraine is doing it on a shoestring.
Ukraine’s grab bag of systems, built largely around off-the-shelf equipment, remain a far cry from the U.S. military’s sprawling and hugely ambitious digitization effort, which has evolved and expanded with technological advances and carries names such as. The Defense Department aims for network scale, security and bandwidth that far exceed Ukraine’s ambitions.
And Ukrainian programmers have updated a system the military calls Delta to give local commanders real-time battlefield intelligence received from drones and from spotters living in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine. A Ukrainian soldier watched a drone feed from an underground command center in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, in December.Ukrainian soldiers have been using 3-D printers to build compact plastic harnesses that snap onto popular commercial drones so that they can be armed with grenades, Mr. Perimov said. The harnesses have inexpensive light sensors attached to a mechanical clasp.
“We can’t even write a contract fast enough,” says Brad Halsey, an engineer and former U.S. special operations officer who now trains U.S. soldiers in what he calls “MacGyver-ing” to address immediate needs, who notes it can take the Pentagon a year to complete an acquisition. In Iraq, he ran a techie workspace to improvise tools for soldiers, such as probes to inspect innocent-looking objects for hidden explosive devices. “Our new mantra should be ‘how to be Ukrainian,’” Mr. Halsey said.
Ukraine’s success cobbling together a virtual command-and-control system on the fly offers valuable lessons for the West.Ukraine has had some centralized innovation, too.
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