The Ukrainian-Estonian startup Farsight Vision, whose product is unique software that allows you to reduce the time for intelligence data analytics by dozens of times, cannot fully sell this software to the Ukrainian military.
The Ukrainian-Estonian startup Farsight Vision, whose product is unique software that allows you to reduce the time for intelligence data analytics by dozens of times, cannot fully sell this software to the Ukrainian military.
This was told by Farsight Vision CEO Viktoriya Yaremchuk in an interview with LIGA.net.
According to her, Ukraine still does not have clearly formulated legislation that would allow for the removal of defense software from the gray zone.
«It is not prohibited, but it is not allowed either,» Yaremchuk claims.
Accordingly, FSV software cannot be sold to the military either on the open market or through centralized procurement.
«Only at the state level, but decentralized (tenders, Brave1 Market — Ed.) — and only to those few military units that have their own funds for this, because the current legislation does not allow you to buy software even with e-points,» stated Viktoriya Yaremchuk.
She also added that the only basis for the purchase is the NATO code, but it is impossible to get a NATO code for the software, because there is no procedure for obtaining the code. «Therefore, the only way is to codify together with UAVs, IRC, EW, etc.,» says Victoria.
The CEO of Farsight Vision explained that together with lawyers and other software developers, including LifesaverSIM and within the Techosystem union, they developed templates for how they see legislative changes in this area, but the situation did not go further than that.
«The Digital Directorate of the Ministry of Defense has already expressed its support for us in this process, has held several roundtables on this topic, but this process may continue for a very long time,» says Victoria Yaremchuk.
She emphasizes the need to create a transparent list of software criteria, particularly in terms of cybersecurity, which legislators could discuss with miltech manufacturers.
As dev.ua recently reported, Ukrainian developer of military intelligence software Farsight Vision has attracted funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC).
