Government Commission on the Development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

History

2023

Composition approved

In February 2023, Prime Minister RFMikhail Mishustin signed an order approving the composition of the government commission on the development of unmanned aircraft systems. First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov has been appointed its chairman, and Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov has been appointed its deputy. The commission also included:

The commission will deal with the development of drones

• Dmitry Azarov - Governor of the Samara Region;
• Boris Aleshin - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Research Center" Institute named after N.E. Zhukovsky ";
• Dmitry Afanasyev - Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation;
• Gleb Babintsev - General Director of the AERONEXT Association;
• Alexander Beglov - Governor; St. Petersburg
• Anatoly Bobrakov - Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic;
• Alexander Belyanov - from the FSB of Russia;
• Viktor Bondarev - Senator of the Russian Federation - Representative from the Executive Body of State Power of the Kirov Region, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security (as agreed);
• Oleg Bocharov - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation;
• Mikhail Volkov - General Director of Russian Post
• Vyacheslav Gladkov - Governor of the Belgorod Region;
• Vladislav Davankov - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma;
• Evgeny Dietrich - General Director of the State Transport Leasing Company;
• Vladimir Efimov - Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Government of Moscow on economic policy and property and land relations;
• Rustam Minnikhanov - Head of the Republic of Tatarstan;
• Dmitry Kim - Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation;
• Vasily Shpak - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.^[1]

Creation of a commission for the development of unmanned aircraft

In February 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the creation of the Government Commission for the Development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The same document approved the corresponding provision.

It follows from the decree that the key task of the government commission is to prepare agreed proposals for the implementation of state policy in the development of unmanned aircraft systems and solving problems, related, inter alia, to the development of these systems in relation to the transport system and other sectors of the economy, with the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into airspace, with the development of infrastructure that is necessary for the operation of such systems, etc. The composition of the commission will be approved by the government.

In addition, the commission will work on:

• definition of the unified state policy for development of unmanned aircraft systems;
• informing, educating and involving legal entities and individuals;
• stimulation and support of developers;
• in general, to create conditions for the development of unmanned aircraft as an independent branch of the economy.

Among the related tasks of the structure are analysis, development of concepts and plans together with the industry community, consideration of proposals. Meetings of the commission are held as necessary, but at least once a quarter, presidium - at least once a month.

Earlier, the president Russia Vladimir Putin instructed the government to approve the strategy for the development of unmanned aircraft by June 1, 2023. As part of the development of the industry, the government was instructed to create a government commission by February 15, 2023, which will have to be headed by the Deputy Prime Minister. Andrey BelousovRESOLUTION of February 9, 2023, № 190 MOSCOW On the Government Commission on the Development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems