Competence centers for drones will be created on the basis of the Federal Air Transport Agency

Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko instructed create centers of competence for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) on the basis of the department and its structures.

“I consider it right to prepare proposals for changing the organization of work in this area, including as soon as possible to make changes to the staffing tables of the structural divisions of the Federal Air Transport Agency, as well as subordinate organizations in order to create centers of competence for unmanned aerial systems on their basis,” he quotes press service of the Federal Air Transport Agency.

Now the department faces the task of simplifying the requirements for drones weighing less than 30 kg, while revising the airworthiness standards for heavier drones, as well as streamlining certification procedures, Neradko added.

At the end of April, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Transport to carefully work out the digitalization of drone traffic control in the country. He then considered the work of the Federal Air Transport Agency insufficient, transmitted Interfax.

“They [Росавиация] they work well within the framework of the challenges and the tasks that they face, but there are other tasks here, they are much more ambitious. We will have thousands of these devices, and maybe tens of thousands. Here, without digital platforms, it will be impossible to solve these problems,” he said at the time.

On April 28, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced that the draft BAS strategy for the period up to 2030 and for the future up to 2035 was sent for interdepartmental approval. Putin instructed to develop a strategy in December 2022. In late April, at a meeting on the development of BAS, Putin called for the production of drones to be streamlined, and also stressed that the development of these systems would become a key area for Russia.

How wrote Vedomosti in early May, the authorities estimated the annual need for financing the industry until 2030 at 70 billion rubles, and the total need at 560 billion rubles. According to the draft BAS strategy, the size of the Russian UAV market by 2030 should be 180,953 units, of which 147,200 will be produced domestically. In monetary terms, the total volume of BAS sales is estimated at more than 200 billion rubles. annually. Production will increase every year from 5,700 units in 2023 to 32,500 in 2030.