FCS will transfer its unified IT system to a data center in Tver and spend 250 million rubles on this

2023

Transfer of a unified IT system to a data center in Tver for 250 million rubles

On November 27, 2023, the Central Information and Technical Customs Administration announced a tender for the migration of the Unified Automated Information System (UAIS) of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) to the Tver data processing center. More than 250 million rubles are allocated for relevant work.

As reported in the tender documentation, the purpose of the project is to ensure the uninterrupted and fail-safe functioning of the UAIS services. In addition, the possibility of reliable round-the-clock access of FCS divisions and other third-party organizations to various services as part of the IT platform will be implemented. It is said that all segments and subsystems of the Tver data center function within a single complex.

Data center "Tver"

During the first stage of the project, supporting documentation should be developed and agreed: 75,558,566 rubles are allocated for this. The second phase involves the actual migration of the UAIS DPC "Tver" and the conduct of acceptance tests: the cost of these works is estimated at 174 562 412 rubles. Thus, a total of 250 120 978 rubles will be allocated.

During the migration process, the existing functionality of the UAIS should be preserved, including the invariability of the rights and privileges of end users to work with customs applications. The tender documentation also notes that the strategic goal of the development of the FCS is to form by 2030 "a qualitatively new, saturated with artificial intelligence, quickly reconfigured, information related to internal and external partners, smart customs service, invisible to law-abiding business and effective for the state." UAIS components (databases and application servers) in the Tver data center should provide daily activities for up to 60 thousand FCS officials.^[1]

Purchase of servers for 700 million rubles

On August 7, 2023, it became known that the Central Information and Technical Customs Administration (CITTU) was purchasing a large batch of Russian servers. The total cost of equipment exceeds 700 million rubles.

According to CNews, we are talking about the supply of Aquarius and Yadro systems. In particular, CITTU acquired four Aquarius servers in the amount of 98.3 million rubles and Yadro computing equipment (40 servers) worth 593.5 million rubles. Thus, 44 server complexes were purchased. In addition, money has been allocated for the installation of equipment in the data processing center (data center "Tver"), as well as the development of supporting documentation. In general, the project cost is 700.2 million rubles.

ZITTU buys a large batch of Russian servers

The supplier was Prime Group, which is 49% owned by Rosenergoatom, and 17% of the shares are concentrated in the hands of Alexander Bogdyl, Sergei Ryzhkov and David Faradzhev. The purchased equipment is necessary for CITTU to modernize the information and computing infrastructure of the data processing center of the Unified Automated Information System of Customs Authorities (UAIS) "Tver." The goal of the project is the fault-tolerant functioning of import-substituted services based on the Tver data center.

The purchase of domestic equipment has become necessary for the FCS in connection with the current geopolitical situation. In June 2021, it became known that the department buys equipment and software for a data center in Tver for 3.2 billion rubles. It was said that the purchased systems should provide daily activities of up to 60 thousand FCS officials, as well as the placement and fault-tolerant storage of operational data with a volume of at least 5000 TB, with a subsequent increase in this volume by at least two times - without replacing the equipment used.^[2]

2021: Allocation of 780 million rubles for the development of ICT infrastructure

The federal project "Digital Public Administration" (TsSU) of the national program "Digital Economy" contains an event to ensure the development of information and telecommunication (ICT) infrastructure of customs authorities and information security. For these purposes, the federal budget allocated 780 million rubles. This became known on August 25, 2022.

According to the materials of the FSU, the development of the ICT infrastructure of customs authorities and information security contributes to the creation of an ecosystem of the digital economy of Russia, in which data in digital form is a key factor in all areas of socio-economic activity, ensuring their effective interaction, including cross-border, business, state and citizens.

As a result of the implementation of the event, results should be achieved in the following areas: ensuring the transition to creating conditions for the use of mobile technologies and devices in customs authorities; development of information and software tools, including infrastructure, ensuring the trouble-free functioning of all components of the information system of customs authorities; implementation of the technology of centralized collection, storage and processing of information on the results of customs inspections of goods and vehicles carried out using inspection and inspection complexes; creation of conditions for the organization of long-term archival and legal important electronic documents; Providing the necessary storage systems for continuous monitoring and analysis of threats arising from the introduction of new information technologies to respond to them in a timely manner ensuring the sustainable functioning of decentralized information, software and information and technical means of customs authorities.

The press service of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) reported that the 780 million rubles pledged to TsSU were allocated to the department in 2021 to implement these goals. The Main Department of Information Technologies of the FCS is responsible for the implementation of this event. Further participation of the FCS in the CSU is not expected due to the lack of funding.

In 2021, 499 units of specialized equipment of the information security system of the Unified Automated Customs Information System (UAIS TO) were delivered to the customs authorities of Russia. 690 switches, 394 routers, 13 automated telephone exchanges and 135 gateways were also delivered.

In addition, 140 software and hardware complexes of regulated procedures (PAC RP) of the level of regional customs departments (RTU) and customs were purchased. With their help, a set of measures was completed to create the foundation for the information and computing infrastructure of customs authorities at all levels of the hierarchy: from posts and customs of actual control for RTU and Centers for Electronic Declaration of Goods, the FCS press service noted.

As a result, as stated in the FCS, the need for hardware computing platforms has been fully realized, and the virtualization software environment as part of PAC allows you to solve current and promising problems. In addition, within the framework of the centralization of communication services (organization of data transmission channels), 1.6 thousand main and backup data transmission channels were organized for the information exchange of customs authorities in 2021. Their bandwidth is 2 Mbps or more.

The FCS also developed a tool for automating the activities of law enforcement units of customs authorities, an automated software tool "Documentation and systematization of operational-search information" (AIS DISOR) was created. Its functioning is ensured at distributed objects of computer equipment of law enforcement units.

In addition, the certification of distributed facilities was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the FSTEC: the facilities of the FCS, the Central Customs Administration and the Central Operational Customs were put into operation, taking into account the possibility of processing secret documents.

The FCS belongs to the objects of critical information infrastructure, which, according to the Decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, from January 1, 2025 should abandon the use of foreign software. The agency has drawn up a corresponding list of software requiring replacement.

Special attention is required by the task of switching to the domestic platform of the domain structure of the Unified Directory Service UAIS TO, which implies not just replacing software, but rebuilding the model of functioning of the UAIS TO, replacing services, including infrastructure. A large amount of work is to be carried out to replace operating systems on more than 6.5 thousand servers, which, as of August 2022, ensure the functioning of the UAIS TO, said Tereshchenko.

Tereshchenko added that in the near future it is planned to introduce elements of artificial intelligence into the key business processes of the customs authorities, for example, in the semantic analysis of the text description of the product. Also, the created model for the analysis of images of inspection and inspection complexes (IDC) using machine learning mechanisms in terms of expanding the list of goods that can be recognized in IDC images using artificial intelligence technologies will also be further developed.

Special attention will be paid to the project to create a promising model of the risk management system in the UAIS, based on the technology of automated assessment of the risk level of product batches (a promising model of RMS). The risk level of each transferred batch of goods will be determined in real time using elements of artificial intelligence.^[3]

The prospective model of RMS will be implemented using current information technologies and scientific methods of mathematical and statistical analysis. This will significantly expand the capabilities of the operational monitoring system to automatically identify schemes for the movement of goods with a high probability of violations of customs legislation, point selection of objects of control and the application of the necessary forms of customs control, while minimizing the subjective factor. As part of the analytical work, we plan to introduce predictive business analytics mechanisms into our practice, which will allow us to significantly increase the efficiency of the data analysis process in all areas of activity, reported by Denis Tereshchenko.

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