MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The interdepartmental council for equipping cross-polar and Trans-Siberian air routes and modernizing the Unified Air Traffic Control System held a session in Moscow on Thursday.
The interdepartmental council found it expedient to appoint the contractor general in projects of upgrading district centers of the Unified Air Traffic Control System to unified districts of air traffic control on the basis of a competition starting from 2003. Only Russian enterprises will be allowed to compete for the contracts.
In accordance with the council's decision, the volume of imported equipment should not exceed 40 percent of the total cost of establishing enlarged centers in seven Russian citizens, these being Murmansk, Syktyvkar, Tyumen, Rostov, Magadan, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk.
The session discussed plans of activities aimed at upgrading existing district centers of the system and joint financing of the project by the Transport and Defense Ministries.
The council appealed to the Russian government asking it to consider a possibility of giving the presidium of the interdepartmental commission in charge of airspace application the right to appoint general contractors and cooperation of enterprises to handle the upgrading projects.
The session was supervised by co-chairmen of the council - the first deputy transportation minister and Air Force Commander Vladimir Mikhailov.