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Tue, 08/25/2009 - 17:00
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Putin to chair conference on aerospace industry restructuring
MOSCOW, August 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
will chair a conference on Tuesday on restructuring of the aerospace
industry, an official at the government press office said.
The key issue on the agenda is "to create an effective mechanism to
implement a package of measures to improve the situation in the aerospace
industry," the press office said.
"One of the main tasks in structural changes is to form, under
effective state management, the industry capable of developing aerospace
equipment of world level, meeting all the requirements of the country, and
needed on foreign markets," it noted.
At present, Russia's aerospace brings together 100 research and
production organizations. More than half of them are federal state unitary
enterprises or state-run companies. The share of joint stock companies
where the state holds a controlling interest makes up 22 percent.
Research organizations account for a considerable portion of the
industry. Of those, 18 actually perform the functions of research
institutes.
In the past three years, the number of enterprises with unstable
financial position decreased four-fold (from 16 companies in 2007 to 4 at
the present time).
Amidst the efforts to keep a rather high level of capital investment
into retooling and restructuring of aerospace companies, special attention
is paid to the preparation of the batch production of armaments and
aerospace equipment.
"During the first eight months of this year, 20 launches of booster
rockets were made, which exceeds the average monthly indicator of 2008,"
the press office underlined.
Optimization of the industry is part of permanent work; and procedures
are underway to privatize companies in this sector. Special attention is
paid to recruiting young skilled specialists and offering them attractive
remuneration and benefits packages.
The plan of structural changes in aerospace aims to pool companies in
the priority directions of aerospace activities. "Supposedly, seven large
integrated organizations will be formed by 2013 in the sector," a
government official said.
A number of corporations is being set up in the interests of enlarging
the basis to develop and produce various kinds of spacecraft and avionics.
The maintenance of launch pads and the development of their infrastructure
will be handed over to the integrated organization "Center of Operation of
Ground Aerospace Infrastructure."
In the period to 2016, the integrated organizations set up in the
sector will be enlarged. A united research complex will be created, and a
corporation will appear which will engage in developing unmanned
spacecraft for various purposes and ground control equipment.
"After 2016, the structure of the aerospace industry will envision up
to six large corporations, self-sufficient in the production of certain
kinds of aerospace equipment, and, accordingly, competitive on the world
market of aerospace products and services," the press office of the
Russian government said.
will chair a conference on Tuesday on restructuring of the aerospace
industry, an official at the government press office said.
The key issue on the agenda is "to create an effective mechanism to
implement a package of measures to improve the situation in the aerospace
industry," the press office said.
"One of the main tasks in structural changes is to form, under
effective state management, the industry capable of developing aerospace
equipment of world level, meeting all the requirements of the country, and
needed on foreign markets," it noted.
At present, Russia's aerospace brings together 100 research and
production organizations. More than half of them are federal state unitary
enterprises or state-run companies. The share of joint stock companies
where the state holds a controlling interest makes up 22 percent.
Research organizations account for a considerable portion of the
industry. Of those, 18 actually perform the functions of research
institutes.
In the past three years, the number of enterprises with unstable
financial position decreased four-fold (from 16 companies in 2007 to 4 at
the present time).
Amidst the efforts to keep a rather high level of capital investment
into retooling and restructuring of aerospace companies, special attention
is paid to the preparation of the batch production of armaments and
aerospace equipment.
"During the first eight months of this year, 20 launches of booster
rockets were made, which exceeds the average monthly indicator of 2008,"
the press office underlined.
Optimization of the industry is part of permanent work; and procedures
are underway to privatize companies in this sector. Special attention is
paid to recruiting young skilled specialists and offering them attractive
remuneration and benefits packages.
The plan of structural changes in aerospace aims to pool companies in
the priority directions of aerospace activities. "Supposedly, seven large
integrated organizations will be formed by 2013 in the sector," a
government official said.
A number of corporations is being set up in the interests of enlarging
the basis to develop and produce various kinds of spacecraft and avionics.
The maintenance of launch pads and the development of their infrastructure
will be handed over to the integrated organization "Center of Operation of
Ground Aerospace Infrastructure."
In the period to 2016, the integrated organizations set up in the
sector will be enlarged. A united research complex will be created, and a
corporation will appear which will engage in developing unmanned
spacecraft for various purposes and ground control equipment.
"After 2016, the structure of the aerospace industry will envision up
to six large corporations, self-sufficient in the production of certain
kinds of aerospace equipment, and, accordingly, competitive on the world
market of aerospace products and services," the press office of the
Russian government said.
