12:29 11.01.2016

Ukroboronprom plans to switch to NATO standards by 2020, develop cybersecurity

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Ukroboronprom plans to switch to NATO standards by 2020, develop cybersecurity

The Ukroboronprom State Concern has said that the medium-term priorities of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex is restructuring, a switch to NATO standards, boosting military and technical cooperation, implementation of the imports substitution program and mastering of new sectors, including cybersecurity, the press service of the concern has reported, referring to Ukroboronprom Head Roman Romanov.

"By 2020, the Ukroboronprom would switch to NATO standards as widely as possible. The concern would design modern military equipment with the involvement of global partners. This is outlined in the program on the development of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex "Ukrainian Shield," the concern said.

Romanov said that it is planned to restructure defense and industrial enterprises via vertical integration of industrial facilities and enter the new sectors, for example, cybersecurity.

"The further course includes the satisfaction of the needs of Ukrainian military and development of the export potential," he said, adding that the Ukrainian president set a task to enter the top five global exporters of arms for the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex.

Romanov said that in 2015 the Ukroboronprom took part in international defense exhibitions, inked agreements on development of cooperation in the military and technical area, including with Canada, the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Poland.

He said that Ukraine's promising partners are U.S. Systems, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, Barrett, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inkas, France's Airbus DS Geo SA, Thales Group and Sagem, Italy's Iveco, Poland's WB Electronics, HSW, Lubawa SA, PCO and PGZ, and Turkey's Aselsan, TAI, Havelsan and Roketsan.

Commenting on the development of cooperation with NATO, he said that the Ukroboronprom would regularly take part in the Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) and five its groups: NAAG, LCMG, JCG UAS, JCG GBAD and Smart Defence. He said that the Ukroboronprom participated in 40 meetings of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group on Defence-Technical Co-operation and established cooperation with the Alliance in the defense standardization area.

Romanov said that in 2015 the Ukroboronprom signed memorandums of cooperation in the imports substitution area with 10 regional administrations: Lviv, Ternopil, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia and Ivano-Frankivsk to implement the tasks of substituting Russian spare parts in the defense and industrial complex, as well as the agreement of cooperation with Kyiv City Administration. Today, a total of 114 state enterprises that are not incorporated in the concern produce and supply 247 types of spare parts for 37 concern's enterprises.

The Ukroboronprom chief said that the concern continues work on the creation of the technical support centers on imports substitution for rubber technical goods, the radio elements base, spare parts for aviation equipment. The industrial potential of 178 enterprises that are potential partners was revised.

At present, the Ukroboronprom produces over 35% of spare parts that earlier were supplied to the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex from Russia, he said.

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