Personally, I remember very well how the Anti-Shahed Hackathon was held a few years ago. Manufacturers were supposed to present their ideas for combating them. The very concept of the hackathon (I attended one of them) implies that manufacturers first do something somewhere, come up with something, and then present it at the hackathon, where the commission then analyzes it.And the first problem was a situational response to the problem that has arisen now, but there was no analytical forecasting.“What will we do, hypothetically, when Shaheds fly higher, become more numerous, and more resistant to our electronic warfare, and so on?”The second problem was that without forecasting the above, problems that could arise in the future were ignored. And a lot could have been done in two years.The third problem was that solutions often emerged without coordination with other participants' solutions. When one participant might have an innovation, but the finished product lacked the innovation of another participant. When a participant has an innovation but cannot scale it, and so on.And the fourth is that no one has drawn any conclusions.SourceAbout the author: Pavlo Vernivskyi, economist, expert at the Oleksandr Pol Institute.The editors do not always share the opinions expressed by the authors of the blogs.