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IT company computer classroom opened in Belarus’ Military Academy
MINSK, 26 December (BelTA) – A computer classroom for the information technology company of the Belarusian army was opened in the Military Academy on 26 December. Belarusian Defense Minister Andrei Ravkov, Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Belokonev, and Director of the state institution Hi-Tech Park Administration Vsevolod Yanchevsky took part in the opening ceremony, BelTA has learned.
During the ceremony the Belarusian defense minister noted that the necessary modern infrastructure for military personnel to live and work in comfort had been created in the Military Academy. A broad range of R&D projects are implemented in the academy. The key ones involve warfare modelling, navigation support, and the development of automated control and radiolocation systems. The IT company personnel will have to show their programming skills. As many as 44 workstations have been deployed in the new classroom. Every specialist will be assigned to a modern computer for the duration of their army service.
Competition for the available positions was tough, with more than eight people per open position trying to get into the IT company. The army selected 40 young people with a university degree in information technologies and an aptitude for this kind of army service. “These guys had to go through a serious elimination process. They are motivated to produce results,” stressed Andrei Ravkov. He added that every IT company specialist will have a supervisor to be appointed from the officers of the Military Academy, the Armed Forces research institute, and various departments of the Defense Ministry and the General Staff. The supervisors will directly oversee how the specialists will work.
The IT company specialists have already gone through basic military training, shot some live rounds at a firing range, and taken the military oath. They now proceed with the combined arms training.
The information technology company (as an army unit) was established as part of the Military Academy in order to further improve training levels of the Armed Forces by using the intellectual potential of IT specialists to the max. Apart from that, the IT company will work together with the Military Academy and other education and research institutions of the Armed Forces to develop utility software and various applications.
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