For Partners

Executive summary

Slugba.org is a digital talent management platform for Ukrainian Armed Forces, National Guard, and Police. Built on NATO standards J-1 (Personnel) and J-7 (Training), with upcoming AI capabilities for workforce analysis, talent discovery, and personalized development paths.

The strategic context

Ukraine fights an adversary with a 5× larger mobilization base (≈70M vs ≈14M males of service age). Victory cannot be achieved through numbers — only through quality of human resource management. Every soldier in the right role. Every talent discovered. Every hour of rear-area service — an investment in combat readiness.

The problem

• Programmers guard checkpoints while J-6 units lack IT staff
• Civil engineers dig trenches while fortification design is undermanned
• Experienced drone pilots are thrown into infantry assaults, skills wasted
• Military-wide: 576 AWOL per day (2025), 200,000 currently absent
• Workload inequality in rear units: 4.7× documented (real-unit analysis)

The solution

• J-1 Personnel — fair duty rostering (fairness 40% + preferences 50% + random 10%), readiness dashboard, talent discovery, full audit trail
• J-7 Training — online learning, personalized development paths, qualification tracking with expiry, peer learning, internal training, resource library
• AI capabilities (Phase 4+) — workforce needs analysis, potential detection, individualized growth trajectories
• For commanders — 5 minutes instead of 3 hours per schedule, full transparency, protection from disputes

Impact (Realistic scenario, 3 years)

Combat Readiness Index: 43.5 → 73.0 (+68%).

NATO compliance

• J-1: 20 functions mapped to FM 1-0 (US Army, 2021), 70% coverage today
• J-7: core Training functions being added in Phases 2–4
• Expandable to J-4 (Logistics), J-9 (CIMIC) via same architecture

Stakeholders

• Direct decision-makers: Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Corps HQs (Khartia, Azov)
• Intermediary: Brave1 defense-tech incubator, volunteer organizations (Victory Drones)
• Partners / donors: NATO Representation in Ukraine, NATO DIANA, USAID, GIZ

Ask

• Pilot partnership with a rear unit (30–50 personnel)
• Funding for Phase 2–4 development including AI capabilities ($300–800K)
• Integration support with MoD digital systems (Army+, Impulse, DELTA, ІПС «Кадри»)

Project status

Closed government-tier project. Built by an active-duty National Guard of Ukraine servicemember from personal field experience. Not open source — developed for state customers.