IT used to improve survivability of civil air defense projects

The National Civil Air Defense Office of the People's Republic of China (PRC) organized more than 30 experts in information and protection fields from 7 organizations of the Chinese People's Liberation of Army (PLA) to carry out periodical appraisal of the subject of Research on Important Civil Air Defense Construction under Information-based Conditions jointly undertaken by 5 scientific research institutions of the PLA on April 9, 2012 in Beijing.

The experts highly praised the research subject and offered 15 constructive advices, suggesting the scientific research institutions to further rationalize and adjust project resistance grades and other performance standards by learning from the latest scientific and research achievements in information and engineering protection fields in compliance with the new position of civil air defense projects under the information-based conditions.

According to Xu Zhengfeng, director of a design and research institute under the General Staff Headquarters (GSH) of the PLA, the subject aims at improving the overall survivability of important civil air defense projects under the information-based conditions, reducing the risk of mass casualties and comprehensively optimizing the protection performance. It solved technical problems such as establishing an information-oriented physical network platform for protection and rescue and improving survivability of civil air defense projects. Some research achievements will be transformed and applied in the first half of 2012.