First RT Vice-premier Boris Pavlov: “Lack of state financing and qualified staff are the main problems of defence-industrial complex modernization.”

Professional staff training, development of innovative projects and their financing from RF finance institutions of development are the first-priority spheres for the development of defence-industrial complex (DIC) enterprises. First RT Deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov announced this fact, holding the speech on 30, July in Russian Manufacturers & Businessmen Union and (RMBU) at the meeting concerning the problems of scientific-technical potential of DIC and its technological modernization.

Participants of the meeting came to consensus in the assessment of modernization problems in DIC – the main problem is lack of qualified staff along with insufficiency of state financing.

It’s meant that at the forthcoming September meeting of RF Security Council the recommendations of RMBU on DIC will be the basis of RMBU official speech and will be the part of decision project.

After short description of development dynamics of RT DIC enterprises, Boris Pavlov noteв that in spite of advanced growth of production volume at the RT DIC enterprises, its share in total production volume becomes lower. So, the production level in comparison with 1990 has become low enough than in industry upon the whole. The government order volume is still low (it doesn’t provide break-even production).

In spite of difficult conditions of RT DIC enterprises development, it is still the main source of innovation component increase in total volume of industrial production. So, the share increase of innovative production in RT industry made 17 % in 2007, while at enterprises of military-industrial establishment (MIE) it reaches 50-60 % from the total production volume.

Pavlov paid a special attention to the project “Management of graduate students’ professional competence development with the participation of enterprises-employers.” that is realized in A.N. Tupolev Kazan State Technical University. In the process of project group work new valuable experience of factory-university interaction has been received, and graduate qualification works of diploma students were given a high mark of State certification commission.

For realization of this project there was formed the complex of events on development and introduction in Engineer-Economic Institute of bachelors’, specialists and masters training system in polyprofessional study-project groups. The order of group recruitment and student motivation is realized during the whole education period and doesn’t cover the whole contingent.

RT has become a unique “polygon” for working out of staff training system for highly-technological economic sector.

In other speeches of meeting participants it was noted that DIC has considerable development potential but demands active participation of the government in the decision of a major task of production modernization. One of the ways to decide the problem is federal target program on technological re-equipment of DIC enterprises.

The meeting was held by the manager of RMBU commission on DIC V.K. Glukhih. The head of federal service on defence order (Rosoboronzakaz) Sergey Maev, the Director of Department on interaction with branch associations V.M. Cherepov, Deputy Director of Department on interaction with branch associations S.A. Stepanov, also the officials of ministries and establishments of federal and regional level, heads of enterprises and scientific institutions of DIC, officials of public scientific organizations.