A research institute of Air Force Research Institute： Our scientific research is to serve combat effectiveness.

Race against time and keep pace with the times.

■ Liberation Army Daily reporter Li Jianwen

Walking into a research institute of the Air Force Research Institute, the reporter felt that everyone was racing against time. During the interview, the conversation was constantly interrupted by telephone calls.

Time is extremely precious here. "Being pushed by various tasks and being urged by grassroots officers and men, there is a feeling of charge every day." An assistant researcher showed the reporter the annual plan list. Behind the dense projects, the completion rate and time nodes were clearly understood.

Where does this sense of urgency come from? The assistant researcher’s words expressed the voice of all the researchers in the institute: "We can’t sit still at the thought that the combat effectiveness of the troops is connected behind the scientific research project and the bottleneck problem that needs to be broken in the current training and preparation is solved."

This year, two children of a female engineer in the institute are facing a critical period of further study at the same time, and a certain task she undertook has also entered a critical period. As a parent, who doesn’t want to spend more time with their children? But at the thought of the progress of tackling the problem, she packed her bags and went to the new equipment unit.

When a young researcher returned from the training ground, he went straight to the office to write an evaluation report …

One topic after another affects the hearts of the researchers in the institute and urges them to go to the next battle position without stopping.

In that year, these majors were relatively independent, with diverse technical foundations, and developed their own distinctive scientific research fields. They followed the tide of strengthening the army through reform and strengthening the army through science and technology and merged to form a brand-new research institute. The leader of the institute said: "Our professional field is small and special, and it seems that we don’t directly participate in the war, but every link affects the preparation and progress of the war, and even plays a key role in’ four or two’."

These "small and special" fields cover a wide range, but the energy of researchers is limited. Where should we exert ourselves? The researchers of the institute gave the answer with their own footprints: what is needed in the training ground, what is needed in the future battlefield, and where the baton of scientific and technological innovation points.

The Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress emphasized that the transformation of science and technology into combat effectiveness should be accelerated. The key lies in "acceleration" and the difficulty lies in "transformation". Whoever takes the first move of scientific and technological innovation will take the lead and win the victory. The Party Committee of the Institute focuses on actual combat scientific research and accelerates characteristic innovation. The list of goals is the time scale of crossing the border and capturing the pass, and it also reflects their scientific research track of fighting for war.

Accelerating forward running is bound to usher in greater resistance. Faced with the "no man’s land" of scientific and technological innovation and the blockage of core technologies, they have made breakthroughs again and again, helping the troops to continuously cultivate new growth points of combat effectiveness.

An "accelerated run" of scientific research from war to war

■ Liberation Army Daily reporter Li Jianwen correspondent Lu Tailai Yang Xiaofeng Liu Huaguan

A few days ago, a brigade of the Air Force Aviation organized flight training. In recent years, researchers from the Air Force Research Institute have been active in the front line of training, which has provided strong support for the improvement of combat effectiveness. Yu Zeqi photo

Boil the "cold platter" into a pot of "hot dishes" and gather together in the integration and innovation.

"In the planning and evaluation of this drill, the divisions of labor and cooperation among the laboratories broke down the professional barriers and portal boundaries, three scientific research achievements won awards, and five comrades were praised by the higher authorities …" Not long ago, at the work summary meeting of a research institute of the Air Force Research Institute, the achievements of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary joint research and solving difficulties highlighted the new pattern formed by the professional integration of the whole institute.

"In recent years, we have been exploring a research model of coordinated complementarity and cross-border integration in multiple disciplines. At present, it is normal to put the topic’ on the same table’ communication research. " A leader of the institute said.

That year, the institute emerged as the times required in the reform and adjustment of military scientific research institutions. From scratch, it gathered a number of disciplines such as air force operations, training, and support. While the scientific research strength is more concentrated, the institute is also facing the pain of how to adapt to the new system and new requirements and accelerate the integration and development. How to gather excellent talents and make joint efforts to make a "cold platter" into a pot of "hot dishes" has become a difficult problem faced by the party Committee of the institute.

Find the right direction to walk in the same direction. They insisted on focusing military scientific research on actual combat, and started with supporting combat readiness, cutting-edge innovation and core capacity building. A number of "war" prefix topics made breakthroughs, the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements were significantly accelerated, and the direction of scientific and technological innovation serving the construction of combat effectiveness was more distinct.

The person in charge of a project in the institute told the reporter that they have integrated researchers in various fields by building a joint scientific research laboratory and discussed joint innovation through brainstorming. The leaders of each room actively sent the capable forces out for communication. Everyone gradually realized that this is not "planting other people’s land and wasting their own fields", but "using other people’s soil and growing their own seedlings".

To bring people together, it is important to gather together and form a "spirit" with tacit understanding and five fingers coordination. In a test range, a missile galloped past and hit the bull’s-eye accurately. The successful completion of this experiment marks that the institute has embarked on a new road of sharpening and condensing research strength in the front line of the task.

In order to obtain first-hand information, researchers have been "dwelling" in the cabin of the desert Gobi for more than two months; In the vast sea shooting range, they drifted with the ship for several days and nights, monitoring and analyzing the data at any time.

The tough training environment has brought this group of researchers together closely, and also integrated the expertise in different fields. As a result, thinking patterns and obstacles are broken in cross-border communication, and researchers are United into "a hard piece of steel". In recent years, they have won more than 10 national science and technology progress awards and military science and technology progress awards.

With a good scientific research platform, we must also cultivate the "internal force" of the professional system. "The discipline system is the layout of strength and the framework of ability. Grasping key disciplines is the key to grasping the integration of ability." A leader of the institute told the reporter that according to the specialties of various fields, they reorganized and designed disciplines, formed a scientific and reasonable discipline layout system, led cutting-edge technology research, talent construction and basic conditions construction, and cooperated with the construction of several open joint scientific research laboratories.

When the reporter interviewed, many researchers of the institute were still busy in the front line of the army and at the training site. A staff officer said: "We selected personnel from different disciplines to participate in several exercise missions. This cross-border combination has opened the way for joint operational support and brought overlapping and multiplied scientific research benefits. "

As long as it is conducive to the construction of combat effectiveness, no matter how difficult it is, we must cross it.

Four years ago, when Li Nachu, an engineer, came to work in a research institute of the Air Force Research Institute, she still didn’t know what kind of career she would go to. "Be a paving stone and strive to be the vanguard." Walking into the camp, the oncoming slogan answered her doubts.

Over the years, Li Na has gradually deepened her understanding of this sentence: paving stones are a symbol of dedication. There is no earth-shattering rhetoric here, what is needed is the determination and perseverance to "sit on the bench for ten years." The vanguard is a portrayal of the charge. Science and technology always need the most cutting-edge and excellent technology to win. Whoever lags behind the development of the times will fall into a disadvantage.

One night, Li Na, who returned from a training mission, remembered a string of data in the report and couldn’t sleep for a long time. "Researchers should have a sense of’ sharks smell blood’ and keenly capture what the next topic is from the battlefield." She thought hard, "How to make the evaluation of performance quality more accurate and efficient in joint training?"

This training mission involves massive data of multiple arms and platforms. In order to provide the evaluation results to the participating troops in time, the staff often have to screen and process the data all night.

The training mode should be updated, and the thinking of research and warfare should also be upgraded. "Hard work is small, and scientific research efficiency is great!" Li Na coincides with her comrades-in-arms: innovating to build an evaluation system and forming a universal ability evaluation model. In this way, a new scientific research topic was born from the "battlefield".

In joint training, the training data is diverse, the rules are complicated, and the batch is huge, which is like an unorganized "messy thread group". A comrade-in-arms of a neighboring unit said with emotion that only data classification management is a "big project", and it is necessary to analyze and process the data, which is almost as difficult as "threading between countless pinholes".

"As long as it is conducive to the construction of combat effectiveness, no matter how difficult it is, it is necessary to cross the past! This is an examination question given to us by the actual combat training of the troops, and it is also an examination paper that must answer satisfactory results. " In a word, Li Na expressed the voice of the researchers in the institute.

Gather wisdom to tackle key problems and make progress despite difficulties. A number of research rooms in the institute are twisted into a rope and work together to overcome difficulties. The relevant staff responsible for data terminal processing have been working with Li Na’s team for several months, which has provided strong support for the project.

The reporter saw on the screen that the training data portrayed a beautiful track between the nodes. "Look, the messy’ thread group’ has been straightened out!" Li Na said confidently, "How far is the training course from the actual combat scale and where is the problem? We can answer it soon."

Only by listening to the voice of the front line can we answer the question of actual combat well.

During the interview, the reporter noticed that the person in charge of a project in the institute was dark-skinned and resolute, with less elegance of scientific research workers and more temperament of frontline combatants.

Soon, the reporter found the reason for this "difference": most of the scientific research work of this person in charge was carried out at border checkpoints and grassroots classes, not in laboratories and offices.

"To satisfy the officers and men and welcome the troops, we must first understand the thoughts of our comrades-in-arms and understand what the troops are short of." This sentence, the person in charge often hangs on his lips. In recent years, he and his comrades-in-arms have entered the border guards again and again to understand the needs of officers and men.

That winter, the team of the person in charge received a task from the superior: to tailor-made cold-proof quilts for border guards and soldiers performing tasks. Time is tight, the task is heavy, and the standard is high. Some researchers suggest: first carry out theoretical verification, and then take the try-on products to the army for inspection, which can greatly save time. However, he raised an objection: "Where is the particularity of border environmental operations? What needs to be improved most? What key technologies need to be tackled? Can you figure it out by sitting in the research room reading materials, making phone calls and building cars behind closed doors? Must conduct field research! "

As a result, a special forum was held at the frontline sentry post. Sure enough, after listening carefully to the speeches of frontier comrades-in-arms, the researchers found that some research and development priorities and design concepts that they had paid great attention to before did not touch the "worries" and "hopes" of officers and men.

This incident made the members of the scientific research team think deeply: if the design of the equipment focuses on peacetime and light wartime, it will be difficult to meet the tactical needs of flexible battlefield. It is the realistic appeal of front-line officers and soldiers to use clothing that takes into account warmth and portability.

The person in charge took out a new down duty sample dress and asked the reporter to try it on. After the reporter put it on, the most prominent feeling was that the dress was very light in weight. "You see, this new film covered on the fabric is characterized by the fact that the wind outside can’t blow in and the rain can’t penetrate in, but the moisture inside can penetrate out. In this way, no matter how windy it is outside or how heavy it snows, the clothes are dry and warm inside. " The person in charge said.

Nowadays, the "seamless connection between research, production and supply" link of "troops-scientific research institutions-production enterprises-frontline officers and soldiers" has been fully launched. The "supply side" of the institute’s science and technology is more closely connected with the "demand side" of training and preparing for war.

An inch away from the soldiers, the feelings are deeper. After years of research in the frontier defense, many researchers in the institute have tanned their skin and suffer from hypoxia every day. "Wearing new winter boots feels light and practical." Seeing the smiling faces of frontier comrades who tried on the new clothes, they felt that all the efforts were happy and worthwhile.

"Our scientific research is to serve the combat effectiveness and serve the officers and men. We must keep the warm and cold moments of our comrades in mind." The person in charge said.

Research for war is more important to be in the front line and rush to the front.

Recalling the thrilling experience of explosive disposal, Liu Li, then the head of a room in the institute, still felt his heart beat faster.

On that occasion, Liu Li and his comrades wanted to "tame" an unexploded aerial bomb. This level of ammunition is the first time he has encountered it in his many years of bomb disposal experience.

Such an unexploded bomb sleeps underground, and if it stays for one more second, the hidden danger will increase by one point. There is only one thought in their hearts: they must eliminate the danger as soon as possible.

When we arrived at the scene, it was getting late, and it was as quiet as suffocation in the "blockade circle" where the bombs were discharged. Only Liu Li and his party went to the central area. They stayed in the crater for a whole night, repeatedly surveyed and evaluated the situation by various technical means, and considered how to minimize the risk. Finally, they determined the solution of "man-machine combination and layered excavation".

In the face of danger, in actual operation, a local manipulator who is responsible for manipulating the bucket to cooperate with the excavation, has a "retreat" in his heart and dares not construct. Liu Li stood directly above the ammunition and said firmly, "Please believe in my major. Wherever I stand, it is safe, so you can safely dig the soil in front of my toes!"

Under the guidance of Liu Li, the manipulator accurately dug out handfuls of soil, and the scattered aviation bomb parts were gradually cleaned up. The warhead is about to appear, and Liu Li said to his comrades: "My skills and experience are the richest. I will stay here with the bomb disposal personnel, and you will all retreat to the protective bunker."

Wearing heavy protective clothing, Liu Li still felt chills in his back. He settled down and began to deal with the work accurately.

"Detonation!" The detonation was successful at one time, but Liu Li and his comrades fell to the ground because of high-load operation.

"Every mission is on the line of life and death. Have you never been afraid?" In the face of a reporter’s question, Liu Li replied: "It is false to say that you are not afraid! That kind of fear for the rest of my life will come to mind when I talk about it. But as a technician, I know the structural characteristics of ammunition best, and I must be at the forefront. I have never hesitated at this point. "

At the conclusion of the task, Liu Li asked the whole room staff: "A qualified military scientific researcher is a combatant first. If you don’t have the courage and experience to wrestle with death, how can you cultivate a team of bomb disposal talents with excellent business? How to develop safer and more advanced bomb disposal equipment? "

The sound of inquiry has become the criterion for the scientific research personnel of the institute to advance. Ren Libing, a young scientific researcher, is one of the first civilian staff in the room. In recent years, in the front line of actual combat, his "roots" have become stronger and stronger. He took the initiative to focus on new technical problems, combined his professional advantages with the actual situation of the army, and studied and proposed a new algorithm that integrated various means, greatly improving the accuracy of detection and positioning.

Battlefield demand is the "direction mark" of scientific and technological innovation

■ Dang Tianfu

The growth point of the army’s combat effectiveness is science and technology, and the core point is also science and technology. Once scientific and technological innovation is divorced from the clear orientation of fighting for war, it cannot serve the construction of combat effectiveness. Battlefield demand is the motive force of military struggle preparation. In order for scientific and technological forces to be accurately applied to military practice and become a "powerful lever" and a "revolutionary force" affecting the future war pattern, it is necessary to regard the battlefield demand as the "direction standard" of scientific and technological innovation, and ensure that researchers study what the battlefield needs; What is lacking in winning, researchers will make up for it.

The topic was born in the first line and the results were polished in the first line. This is not only the practical experience of scientific research for war, but also the only way to transform science and technology into combat effectiveness. When scientific and technological innovation and combat capability resonate at the same frequency, and scientific research and combat training are closely linked, science and technology can supply advanced combat effectiveness. Researchers from a research institute of the Air Force Research Institute tell us with practice that officers and men are satisfied with the results "ground" from the grassroots; A system designed for the battlefield is useful in wartime.

In the information battlefield, the technical means and cognitive elements of winning are constantly expanding, and "one war eliminates another war" is the general trend. If you don’t know how to fight the war, scientific and technological innovation will naturally be targeted. Researchers must keep their eyes on their opponents and study the war with their brains, so that the scientific research bull’s-eye will not go astray. Researchers should not only focus on today’s "artillery fire", but also see tomorrow’s "smoke", and give full play to the frontier and forward-looking nature of scientific and technological innovation to study and lead the war. Only in this way can we ignite a new engine for the leap in combat effectiveness.

The battlefield must not be falsified, and scientific research work must not be mixed with any water. Military researchers should firmly adhere to the concept that the Party is in charge of scientific research, fighting against scientific research and grasping research for war, consciously correct the phenomenon of "rotation" in scientific research work, dare to operate on scientific research projects that are not full of war flavor, and extensively carry out joint research and training activities with the army, so that researchers can enter classes and take to the training ground, effectively solve practical training problems, and study ways to defeat the enemy. At the same time, the majority of scientific researchers should aim at the forefront of world military science and technology, promote major technological innovation and independent innovation, truly take the core technology into their own hands, and promote the high-quality development of the army with scientific and technological innovation.