MOSCOW. May 20 (Interfax-AVN) - The management structure of the Russian aerospace industry wants improvement, Gennady Raikov, a Duma legislator chairing the Russia's Aviation and Cosmonautics group in the State Duma, told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday.
"There are a lot of various management structures in this sphere, and their number, as I see it, does not meet modern requirements since it does not unite the designers, producers, sellers of aircraft, and carriers," he said.
He emphasized that too many state authorities were involved in the aviation management, for example, the Defense, Transportation, Interior, and Emergencies Ministries, Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Interstate Aviation Committee, and Federal Security Service.
According to Raikov, the conflict of interest deprives the industry of good coordination and harmony of interests at all levels form research to the involvement of the state executive power.
"We should consider getting rid of a certain authority excess. We can begin from the bottom level by uniting a number of research institutes, rendering them multi-industry capability," he said.
He also said that "now each institute finds 'scientific grounds', in other words, 'protects' particular interests, and we have to go nearly to the president to settle the conflict of interests."
"See a typical example. We have an international authority certifying aircraft and airfields and at the same time investigating air crashes. Thus, he himself who is to be responsible for flight safety analyzes the causes for unsafety and determines those guilty. And the celebrated 'human factor' so comes to be the most frequent cause,' he said.
He suggested that Russia use the experience of highly developed countries that have certification detached from air crash investigation, and that certification itself should be made in line with the law "On Technical Regulation".
He characterized the Russia's aerospace industry as a very complicated technical system.
"This system includes more than 130 mass production plants and design bureaus, above 1,000 airfields and three space launch centers, an orbital group of spacecraft, and 150 air traffic control centers. The industry involves not only banking and commerce, but also world leading research centers like TsAGI, TsIAM, VIAM, Gromov Flight Research Institute, etc."
Raikov emphasized that the industry has about a million jobs in itself and all in all, taking into account the supply of components, provides about three million jobs.