Gestão da informação na MB: uma contribuição para o aperfeiçoamento da gerência da Informação Digital de interesse

Abstract

The creation of the Ministry of Defense represents to the Armed Forces a beginning of a significant structural change to bring Brazil to a new global trend of defense sectors reorganization. Due to this new structure, this Ministry has recently released the new Strategy for the National Defense, which considers the cyber sector as one of three strategic sectors that should be strengthened, along with the nuclear and space ones. This strategy points out as priority the technology for communication among the armed forces’ contingents, to ensure their ability to act in a network. This orientation is directly related to Information Technology and Communications and their artifacts. The Brazilian Navy wide area network integrates numerous Information assets across the country and worldwide, and has been constantly improved considering its high importance for the institution. The Navy is presently carrying out a comprehensive restructuring of this sector. However, knowing the relevance of the area and the existence of a strategic guiding policy, it must be taken into account that this sector is not an end in itself, but a tool for the automated processing of Information, especially in its digital form. Therefore, considering cybernetics’ core is essentially Digital Information, the management of this data should be treated with high priority and ongoing monitoring and improvement, so that they adequately meet the intended purposes. This monograph attempts to study the way Digital Information Management is currently performed at Brazilian Navy, to identify possibilities for improving it; focusing on the preparation and treatment of Information of Interest and possible improvements in the use of associated technological resources, with a consequent contribution for its cyber defense.