Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

Zhang Anbang chuckled. "Hey, Lao Zhao, what are you daydreaming about? It's almost eleven o'clock. Hurry up and pack your things and go back to sleep."

"Oh, okay," Zhao Zerui said, pulling himself out of his thoughts and tidying up the discarded documents on his desk while thinking about the deputy section chief's resume.

At less than twenty-five years old, a major at the battalion level is a unique individual in the entire T Division.

It's estimated that only the top talents in the Air Force and the research and technical officers who graduated from the gifted youth program can achieve this kind of promotion speed.

Even Gao Cheng, the famous armored tiger of the T Division, couldn't compare. Although Gao Cheng is now a major and holds the rank of battalion commander, he is almost three years older than the man in front of him.

Although anyone with common sense knows that Gao Cheng's position as deputy battalion commander won't last long. Normally, a deputy battalion commander is a deputy battalion-level officer, but there are cases where someone is at the battalion-level rank but holds the position of deputy battalion commander.

However, there are basically only a few situations where such situations exist: senior staff temporarily transitioning to new roles, nurturing promising talents, and waiting for promotion during the gap period.

Alternatively, they could be key reserve young cadres who are lacking battalion commanders in their units but have no vacancy yet. They could temporarily serve as deputy battalion commanders at the rank of full battalion commander, overseeing the training of the entire battalion, and be promoted to full battalion commander as soon as the position becomes vacant.

Gao Cheng is clearly the former, and in the interim period of waiting for promotion, it is estimated that he will be promoted to battalion commander soon.

After tidying up the discarded manuscripts and locking them in the confidential waste paper box in the public area, Zhao Zerui took out the "Registration Book for the Destruction of Confidential Waste Documents" and began recording each item.

Document name, number of copies, reason for invalidation, date of return, submitted by Deputy Section Chief Zhang Anbang, and signed by Zhao Zerui.

Although the Training Section is not like the Confidential Division, it is still a core classified department, and everything is carried out in strict accordance with confidentiality rules.

Any discarded drawings or writing papers must be put into the confidential waste paper box on the same day, and the documents must be counted again before locking the cabinet at the end of the workday.

If the original author of a rejected draft needs to review and revise it during the process, they must register and borrow it. After reviewing it, the draft must be immediately retrieved and sealed. Individuals are not allowed to keep rejected drafts for extended periods.

The lock on this confidential waste paper box must be kept locked at all times. A batch is collected every week or half a month, and then escorted by the clerk and another confidential officer to the division's confidential room to be shredded and destroyed.

After destruction, the destruction time and the signature of the person supervising the destruction must be noted in the register, and the ledger must be kept and archived. Only blank drafts that do not involve classified information or waste paper that is only for calligraphy practice and does not contain information about military training can be recycled as ordinary waste paper.

This is the procedure for handling military supplies. There's no issue of what happens if it takes too long; it simply requires strict adherence to confidentiality procedures.

Those who casually sell large quantities of so-called original military and police stock from decades ago—you know what I mean.

Zhang Anbang felt a little embarrassed for dragging Zhao Wenshu to work overtime until almost 11 p.m. After checking everything together, he returned to his dormitory.

After washing up, Zhang Anbang lay in bed thinking about the past two days of writing the proposal. To be honest, he missed the convenient division-level database and integrated data platform from his previous life.

As for starting to build a platform on his own, to be honest, he considered using his fairly good programming skills to create a database for the division or try to build a data platform.

Unfortunately, it's simply not realistic. The reason is simple: no matter how advanced the technology, it can't overcome the objective barriers of the system, hardware, and engineering.

Moreover, his skills aren't particularly strong. Otherwise, he would have started his own business long ago instead of being a beast of burden as a laborer.

The first and foremost obstacle preventing him from obtaining approval for classified information systems was the lack of authorization to initiate projects.

The platform, which covers the entire division and integrates classified data from multiple departments including training, military affairs, equipment, and personnel, is classified as a Level 3 classified information system in the military according to the confidentiality regulations.

According to the regulations, this project must be initiated at three levels: the division's Party Committee, the division's Confidentiality Committee, and the army group's information technology department. It must then be undertaken by a military research institute designated by the General Staff or the military region, or a compliant unit handling classified information.

No individual, whether officer or soldier, is permitted to develop a fully classified system without authorization.

Even if you have the best technology in the world, if you privately build a database to store the entire division's forces, exercise plans, and personnel files, it is considered an illegal self-built classified information system. You will be suspended from your post for investigation, and the system will be forcibly dismantled and destroyed.

Furthermore, classified systems require a mandatory dual-person, multi-party check-and-balance mechanism, with the system super administrator account, database key, and encryption root certificate being kept by two different people.

Development, code auditing, security testing, deployment and maintenance cannot be done by the same person. Military acceptance standards explicitly prohibit a single person from having full access to the entire system and all source code.

The purpose is simple: to prevent one person from controlling all the core classified data of the entire division and thus creating a risk of leakage.

One person handling the design, coding, encryption, deployment, and maintenance simply cannot pass the security acceptance test; the confidentiality office will not allow it to go live.

Moreover, the military's classified internal network is physically completely disconnected from the internet. Building a full-domain platform requires coordinating the communications department's computer room, classified server racks, encrypted switches, and dedicated classified terminals, all of which are difficult to get approved.

In terms of hardware performance, around the turn of the millennium, the division's servers were mostly old desktop computers that had been modified, low-spec small servers with extremely low CPU, memory, and hard drive read/write speeds.

Later high-performance frameworks, distributed architectures, in-memory databases, and encryption components simply cannot run on older hardware. Many modern optimization solutions lack compatible environments and require a significant amount of time for underlying compatibility and adaptation.

There are technological limitations in the hardware and underlying environment; these limitations can be mitigated to some extent through technical means, but they cannot be overcome.

Also, around the turn of the millennium, there was only SQL Server 2000, and early versions of Delphi and VB6, lacking the mature ecosystem, containers, cloud-native technologies, lightweight encryption libraries, and automated operation and maintenance tools that Python has today.

Therefore, even with the best algorithm, all functions must be rewritten from scratch using an old language; there is no one-click portability.

The entire division has multiple modules, multiple levels of permissions, audit trails, copy-proof encryption, and cross-regiment data synchronization. The entire business process is extremely complex.

He can handle small tools on his own, but the classified integrated platform covering multiple businesses across the entire division is incredibly complex in terms of business requirements, boundary rules, and military compliance standards.

It would take at least five or six years for one person to sort out, develop, self-test, and harden the security according to the requirements. The military cannot wait for one person to slowly develop it, especially since it is a project that has not even been approved.

Finally, at the business level, the integrated platform is not simply about writing code; its core is to adapt to the specific business rules of each department within the military.

Training records for operations and drills, exercise contingency plans, military personnel organization, non-commissioned officer files, equipment and ammunition depot management, officer appointment and dismissal files, destruction of classified documents, borrowing and storage registration...

Each department has its own processes, reports, and approval logic, requiring long-term communication with consultants from each department to collect needs and make repeated modifications and adjustments.

Without business personnel to help clarify the rules and without testers to cross-validate, the system developed by one person will have a large number of business logic vulnerabilities and will not meet the standards for daily use by the military.