KOROLYOV, Moscow region. Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The focus of defense plants must not change with the arrival of private investors, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a meeting of the Expert Council of the Military Industrial Commission.
"I'd like to recall the recent event in St. Petersburg. The Arsenal Plant, which builds seaborne artillery systems and satellites, has become private," Rogozin said. He added that he had visited the plant together with its new owner.
"I do not rule out a growth of the private sector, businesses, but all processes must have a single line of logic. The Federal Space Agency, which is the main ordering client, must fully control this situation," Rogozin said.
"Hence, the acquisition of particular enterprises in the past or in the future must not change their focus. On the contrary, we must have an opportunity to share financial and technological risks with domestic private investors within a single way of thinking, a single concept and a single architecture for the full recovery of the rocket and space industry," the deputy prime minister emphasized.