Digital transformation of public administration of national security in conditions of hybrid warfare

Abstract

The article addresses the task of substantiating a public management methodology for the integration of digital technologies into public administration under conditions of transitive digital statehood. Three qualitatively different sources of systemic dysfunction in current digital transformation are identified internal departmental fragmentation, external technological dependence, and the risk of formal compliance with European norms without real effects and it is shown that none of them reduces to the other two. On this basis, a triadic architecture of complementary mechanisms is grounded technological sovereignty, institutional coherence, and value-oriented adaptation, in which sovereignty acts as a load-bearing axis: it provides the core for coherence and the position for deliberate adaptation. The methodological logic follows the sequence «diagnosis target states instruments», opposed to the practice of first selecting a technology and then searching for applications. The argument is developed within the European context of 2025–2026 (the EuroStack initiative, the European Parliament resolution of 22 January 2026, and the Davos address by Mark Carney), in which the Ukrainian wartime experience of digital resilience is positioned as a methodological asset entitling Ukraine to participate in the European dialogue as a contributor rather than a recipient. The principle of proportional implementation of European norms is formulated, operationalised through a standardised regulatory impact procedure with a block on «digital rights and technological sovereignty». The article also substantiates the positioning of artificial intelligence as an instrument of preliminary semantic control in the norm-drafting process. Prospects for further research are outlined, focused on decentralised platforms based on distributed ledger technology