OGAS

OGAS (Russian: Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации, "ОГАС", "National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing") was a Soviet project to create a nationwide information network. The project began in 1962 but was denied necessary funding in 1970. It was one of a series of socialist attempts to create a nationwide cybernetic network.

The US government in 1962 regarded the project as a major threat due to the "tremendous increments in economic productivity" which could disrupt the world market. Arthur Schlesinger Jr, historian and special assistant to US President John F Kennedy, described "an all out Soviet commitment to cybernetics" as providing the Soviet Union a "tremendous advantage" in respect to production technology, complex of industries, feedback control and self-teaching computers.

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