Research And Development Efforts

MSOC Research & Development activities are part of its work since the first days of the Center.

The main tasks of the MSOC scientific and technical activities are theoretical development, scientific methods and forms of training, and the applications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, General Staff of Ukraine; operational tasks fulfillment; training and retraining system enhancement; training of researchers and education of personnel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The military-scientific work conducted at MSOC is based upon systematic analysis of Ukrainian participation in PSO and the necessity of integrating the students' experience into the previous generations' peacekeeping practice. The Center IT experts and the managers are involved in research and development activities connected with the methodology and technical aspects of participation in PSO preparation and the conduct international command-post exercises, in particular "Viking-2005" and "Viking-2008". During these exercises TYR and JCATS systems are used to provide real-time operation simulation for trainees.

MSOC representatives take an active part in the work of the Secretariat of the Consortium of defense academies and three distant education research working groups. MSOC was as a partner of the Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes within the PfP program in 2000.

The distant education project and electronic libraries are the focus of the MSOC IT experts and instructors. It allows them to provide students located far away with basic teaching materials. Through web-interface, the students can obtain necessary information without leaving their homes. It gives them the opportunity to significantly save time and resources.

Seven computer workstations and a server connected to the Partnership Information Management System within PfP program (PIMS) were set up at the Multinational Staff Officer Courses in April 2001.

This in particular enables the MSOC staff:

                        to use electronic libraries, educational institutions' publications and materials of defense academies and research institutes on different issues within PfP program and others linked to it;

                        to conduct the experience exchanges in the latest information technologies, modern educational materials and programs, and an intensification of the practical aspect of the MSOC participation in the officers' preparation for the Peace Support operations according to the NATO and UN standards.