Davydov Alexander

Davydov Alexander

Education

Alexander Davydov was born on April 30, 1981. In 2003, he graduated from the Faculty of Automated Control Systems of the Baltic State Technical University "Voenmekh" named after Ustinov with a degree in "Robots and Robotic Systems."

Biography

1998-2008

Alexander Davydov came to work at the Research Institute "Scale" immediately after starting his studies at the university in 1998. In 2003, from the position of engineer, he moved to the post of deputy head of the department, and in 2006, he became the head of the department of information and telecommunication systems.

In 2007, Davydov became deputy director for scientific work and innovative development, and in 2008 he replaced his father Yevgeny Davydov as director of the institute. Then Davydov Sr. remained the chief designer of the research institute. Prior to his appointment to "," Voentelecom he held the position of General Director of the Research Institute Scale"."

2017

Appointment of a priority process direction by the head

In April 2017, the general director of Voentelecom, Alexander Davydov, was approved as the head of the priority technological direction. The empowerment of the head of the priority technological direction took place at a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission, of the Russian Federation held today on the basis of NGO "" Saturn(g.) Rybinsk Under the chairmanship of the President of the country. Vladimir Putin

Established in 2016, the Institute of Leaders of Priority Technological Areas is designed to coordinate the efforts of specialized structures, design bureaus and industrial enterprises in the field of promising technologies. Thus, it is planned to significantly increase the efficiency of technological solutions in order to further develop the military-industrial complex and adopt the most advanced and effective types of weapons, military and special equipment.

In development of the provision developed by the College of the Military-Industrial Commission and approved by the President of the Russian Federation, 19 technological directions were created. The status of the head of the direction provides for a wide range of powers: in particular, coordination of draft terms of reference for the development of basic and critical industrial technologies, acceptance of the results of research and development work, participation in the work of commissions for conducting state tests of developed weapons and military equipment.

Field managers will also be involved in the preparation of proposals for the creation and implementation of components, as well as new technologies and materials, the use of which will ensure a high technical level of products.

Detention

At the end of December 2017, it became known about the detention of the general director of Voentelecom JSC Alexander Davydov. He is suspected of embezzling about half a billion rubles during the implementation of state contracts.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, citing its own sources, on December 25, 2017, employees of the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the TFR and operatives of the Federal Security Service (FSB) conducted searches in Davydov's office and in his car. After that , Davydov was detained for 48 hours.

Alexander Davydov

 In the status of a suspect, he was taken for interrogation to the Main Military Investigation Directorate (GVSU). According to the newspaper, the investigation intends to petition the Khamovnichesky District Court to arrest Davydov.

The newspaper writes that the investigation materials indicate that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation concluded contracts with Voentelecom for the supply of equipment, including marsturtisators, and for the implementation of author's supervision of satellite communications. Davydov is suspected of overstating the cost of products and receiving a double fee for the provision of services. For one router, the Ministry of Defense paid 1 million rubles with a market value of 350 thousand rubles. The total estimated amount of theft by Davydov is 460 million rubles.

At the same time, the software supplier was Emzior LLC controlled by the defendants, and the intellectual owner of these developments was Emzior Technologies, headed by Olga Davydova, sister of the head of Voentelecom.

Davydov headed Voentelecom since February 2013. His predecessor Nikolai Tamodin was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement of funds in the implementation of defense state contracts. The damage caused to him is estimated at 714 million rubles.^[1]

2023: Parole Exemption

The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow released on parole (parole) the former Director General of Voentelecom JSC Alexander Davydov and his adviser Dmitry Semyonov, convicted of embezzlement of about 1.4 billion rubles during the implementation of the digitalization program of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces) of Russia. This became known on March 12, 2023.

According to TASS, citing the press service of the court, the prosecutor's office was against the release of Davydov and Seven, and the department appealed the decision on parole against Davydov. At the same time, the prosecutor's office did not appeal the release of Seven, and the decision on parole has already entered into force.

Former gender of Voentelecom Alexander Davydov

The criminal case was initiated based on the results of an audit by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. According to the investigation, Davydov, Semiletov, as well as the first deputy general director of Voentelecom Oleg Savitsky and the general director of the contractor LLC ErSiI Tatyana Ilyina, when concluding contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense for the supply of radio engineering and the implementation of designer supervision of satellite communications, used schemes to inflate the cost of products. Davydov was sentenced to four years and two months in prison, Semiletov - to four years. In addition, the court ordered them to pay fines in the amount of 800,000 rubles.

In addition, according to Kommersant, the leaders of Voentelecom were blamed and fraudulent actions in the implementation of author's supervision of satellite communications. 249.5 million rubles were allocated from the budget for the implementation of this state contract, of which 191.4 million were stolen. Voentelecom returned this money to the treasury voluntarily, the newspaper notes.

The defendants in the case pleaded guilty and testified against other participants in the fraud. Charges were brought against Major General Alexander Ogloblin, who acted as a representative of the state customer, the head of the order department for improving the management system of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Pavel Kutakhov, as well as Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, whom the investigation considers the organizer of the fraud. Ogloblin was convicted in a special order, the trial of the rest of the military is taking place in the 235th Garrison Military Court of Moscow, Kommersant writes. ^[2]

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The disclosure of codes, as well as the localization of production, does not yet guarantee that the equipment can be considered trusted. Why? Because the system of developing complex telecommunications equipment is built on a wide, often international cooperation. And what we see performed by companies such as Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, etc., is just the tip of the iceberg, obvious to a wide range of consumers. In fact, behind each of the final products lies a fairly large number of co-executors, the so-called chip vendors - manufacturers of various microprocessors, components and systems on a chip. Working in cooperation with the final product or device, chip vendors, as a rule, bring their solutions to its consumer properties, but do not transmit source codes. So they retain their know-how and competitiveness, protecting their own business. Therefore, when foreign suppliers talk about code disclosure, then there is no need to harbor illusions - they will not reveal all the codes, since they simply do not have such an opportunity. And then the problem is not just limited to code disclosure. In addition to them, it is necessary to receive and analyze the entire set of documentation. After all, undeclared capabilities can be laid at an early stage of product design, for example, in the circuitry of a hardware platform. And no special checks or studies will reveal this. Plus, you need to understand that code disclosure and the certification process is a long-playing process, very expensive. Often certification is delayed for more than one year, which means that we no longer receive quite promising, and sometimes obsolete equipment. It turns out that we overpay for installing not the most recent samples on the network, and subsequently still incur the cost of training specialists to service this equipment and the risks associated with removing, for example, from production. Would it not be better to take these costs and redirect them to create the necessary infrastructure for the development and production of telecommunications equipment in Russia? This would be a more promising and strategic decision and more correct in the state.

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