NATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF CREATION OF SITUATIONAL CENTERS IN PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
In: Electronic scientific publication "Public Administration and National Security", Issue 8(16)
ISSN: 2617-572X
Today's realities place strict demands on society and public authorities to increase the efficiency of state management in the field of national security and defense. One of the ways to improve the quality of management decisions is to involve in the system of public administration additional special organizational and technical complexes - situational centers. Before starting any work, it is advisable to study the experience of leading countries and national developments in this area. The article considers the national experience (in the period from 1962 to the present) on the creation of situational centers (crisis centers, information and analytical centers) and systems of scientific and mathematical support of their activities for the needs of individual enterprises, state executive bodies, legislature, and namely: the automated control system of the enterprise "Lviv", the system of operational display of flights of space objects "Rytm-2", creation of a situation room for the Ministry of Justice of the USSR, the situational center in the operational headquarters for the elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, information management system for the eliminate the consequences of the earthquake in Armenia, the situation hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ("Rada-1", "Rada-2", "Rada-3" systems), the situation center under the President of Ukraine, the situation center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the information-analytical (situational) center under the Cabinet Ministers of Ukraine, the Main Situational Center of Ukraine and the network of situational centers of central executive authorities. The list of the basic guiding documents of the state concerning construction of the corresponding situational centers, the basic executors of the carried-out works is covered. The main shortcomings in the creation of situational centers of the third class are formed, namely: elaboration of issues of forecasting the emergence of crisis situations and elaboration of options for action to prevent them are at an early stage; organizational-functional (organizational-staff) structures of situational centers are formed, as a rule, by an expert. Proposals for improving the construction of situational centers and the quality of management decisions in the field of national security and defense of Ukraine.