Hi, Warriors! At a time when the present young generation is finding an affinity towards technology, Indian Army is nowhere at the back doing the same.
With PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ initiative started to get a grip, the Indian Army plans to go 100% digital with the highly encrypted cloud system of Indian Army coming into action.
“Digi-Locker” as it’s called, is a big step towards taking the force to become a “digital army”.
Here are the 9 things that you need to know about this big step by the army:
- A highly encrypted cloud system of the Indian Army that will store personnel as well operational data was inaugurated on 9th November 2015.
- The ‘Army Cloud’ includes a central data centre, a near line data centre, both in Delhi and a disaster recovery site for a replication of its critical data along with virtualised servers and storage in an environmentally controlled complex.
- This is similar to ‘Meghraj’, the cloud system of National Informatics Centre, and will provide all information technology infrastructure, including servers for computing, storage, network security equipment centrally for automation of Indian Army.
- It would store all non-classified information of every Indian soldier which can be accessed by authorised personnel as and when needed.
- Another ‘Digital Army Initiative’ which was also inaugurated was ‘Digi-Locker’ which provides a secure and exclusive data storage space to all the units and formation headquarters of the army over its dedicated data network.
- The Army has already initiated a full-fledged digitalisation programme under which every unit and each soldier would become digitally savvy. Each Indian Army unit will have data capability with high bandwidth connectivity.
- The digi-locker of the army is similar to e-Locker of Digital India programme and has all the features like digital signatures and watermarking.
- This is an important step towards implementation of cyber-security as it prelude to carrying of soft copies of data on CDs/DVDs and removable media.
- Apart from these, the Army is also working on a data-radio set that can transmit live video from a border post in LoC or the Line of Actual Control to the headquarters.
The infrastructure and platforms being made available for automation and digitisation will catalyse the pace of digitisation in all branches of the army and is a landmark towards transforming Indian Army from a platform-centric to network-centric force, which would leverage the technology as a force multiplier.
