Competence Center for Industrial and System-Wide Software

History

2025: Approval of the establishment of the centre by the government

The Government of the Russian Federation issued a decree according to which the Competence Center for New Production Technologies was reorganized and renamed the Competence Center for Industrial and System-Wide Software. This became known in early October 2025.

A wide range of tasks are assigned to the updated structure. Its functions will include an examination of particularly significant projects funded by customers, and their information support. The center will be engaged in the formation and updating of priority areas of import substitution in the field of software and hardware and software systems. In addition, his duties include analysis and consolidation of data to update the list of typical objects of the critical information infrastructure (CII), as well as support for the implementation of solutions in organizations. An important area of ​ ​ work will be to ensure the implementation of the roadmaps "New Industrial Software" and "New System-Wide Software" with a planning horizon until 2030.

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Part of the powers in the field of import substitution of ICT on a voluntary basis was transferred to the Federal State Institution "Research Institute" Voskhod. " The direct activities of the Competence Center for Industrial and System-Wide Software under similar conditions are carried out by the Russian Information Technology Development Fund. Financing of the work of the center will be carried out at the expense of budgetary allocations.

According to Tatyana Strizhova, a lawyer, head of the intellectual property practice of Bartolius AB, the purpose of the transformations is to strengthen internal financing of import substitution tasks by companies and corporations, and not just from the budget. She also noted that devolution to three organizations, each responsible for a separate direction, creates a system of checks and balances. Strizhova added that it is expected to accelerate the transition to domestic software, since the new requirements will affect all companies with state participation, and not just the largest of them.^[1]

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