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The army in Great Britain will unite Cyber ​​and electronic activities under one command as part of the broad reorganization of the advanced technology war, said defense secretary John Healey.

The transfer will be a central board of the government’s defense review, which is to be unveiled on Monday, which will determine the plans and priorities of military expenses for the coming years.

. Ministry of Defense It also plans to spend over 1 billion pounds to develop an artificial intelligence system for analyzing and filtering gigantic amounts of data generated in the army.

This is part of a broader effort to digest military conclusions drawn during the conflict of Ukraine, in which Ukraine uses the technology of using a numerical enemy.

During a visit to the British military command at Mod Corsham in Wiltshire on Wednesday, Heaaley defended the British expenditure obligations in the face of US pressure and other NATO allies in order to increase the financing of the armed forces.

In the face of an increasingly belligerent Russian, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has committed an additional 5 billion pounds this year Defense expenses up to the threshold of 2.5 % of GDP by 2027 and 3 percent to the next election. However, this may not be enough for NATO allies.

On Monday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he assumed that NATO would agree to the goal of defense expenditure 5 percent of GDP3.5 percent for pure defense and 1.5 percent for wider security elements, in accordance with the demands of US President Donald Trump.

Any misunderstandings will probably appear this month at the annual NATO summit in Hague.

“We’ve always played our role in NATO,” Healey said, dealing with Rutte comments. “We are ready to plan our ability obligations. We will make our obligations to NATO. But above all, Great Britain will become a leading European nation in NATO.”

Speaking in Mod Corsham, Healey said “we are attacked every day” in a cybernetic domain. “And this is the Nervous Center of the British army that helps us defend against these attacks … The keyboard has become a weapon of war.

“In future conflicts – and we have learned this lesson from Ukraine – those who prevail, there will be those who are not only better equipped and better trained, but better.”

The new National Cyber ​​and Electromagnetic Command will unite British cybernetic staff, which gives the Signals GCHQ intelligence agency, the Ministry of Defense and other government units.

National cybernetic forces that supervise “offensive” cybernetic activities will remain independent within the plan. A new cybernetic command – similar, but not identical to the cyber -created force created a year and a half ago by the Pentagon – uniforms a series of smaller units in the National Command next to NCF.

Experts were skeptical about reorganization. “I have two minds,” said one of the reserve officers who asked for his name. “Of course, the electronic war and cyber -they are critical. But I’m not sure if the way to cut bureaucracy is to create more organizations and layers.”

Meanwhile, the new “digital management” system is aimed at combining data collected on the battlefield and translating it into better intelligence on what the opponent does, but on a larger scale than current software, such as MAVEN, designed by the American Palantir Defense Company. Defense officials insisted that no single system or company would provide the entire image that it described as a “system system”.

“This is a serious level of investment and shows that this is a real priority,” said Will Blyth, general director and co -founder of Armytite, a British company dealing with defense software.