Abstract
The article explores the trends in the creation and development of automated control systems (ACS) that manage production while solving various applied problems, incl. those related to the military-industrial complex. The characteristics of some applied problems are considered, together with the required volumes of RAM and external memory, the maximum and average solution time. It is noted that the difficulties in solving some applied problems are associated with their nonlinearity. Three stages of the organization of an intramachine information base are singled out, the concept of a database is described, as well as an information model of the subject area and a data model. Depending on the permissible structural components, classes of data models are distinguished. Programming technologies, languages and semi-structured information search systems are analyzed.