MOSCOW, March 12 (AVN) -- The Russian Control Systems Agency's restructuring plan provides for reduction of the agency's state owned enterprises from 258 to 30 by 2005, the agency's director-general Vladimir Simonov said on Monday.
The current nine integrated structures within the agency will be complemented by another 15 in two years, Simonov told an expanded session of the agency's board. Draft documents concerning establishment of Krasnaya Zarya and Computer Technologies state-owned consortiums and the Radar state owned consortium of radio location and instrument engineering have been submitted for co-ordination with interested ministries and departments, he said.
Simonov went on to stress that the restructuring would contribute to production control optimisation and promotion of the industry's products on the world market. The agency's enterprises exported their products to 61 states in 2000, which provided for the 42 percent growth of the export volume.
The core of the export was formed by military-purpose products which made over 84 percent of the total export volume. Meanwhile, civil-purpose products of the agency's enterprises has a considerable export potential too and it has yet to be realised on the global market, Simonov noted.