Uniting Efforts: TsAGI Holds Roundtable at Army 2024 Forum
22 August 2024
Today, the most urgent challenges are the active development of research-and-technology and industrial ties, aimed to create high-tech special-purpose products, and the faster pace of military and technical cooperation. The International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2024” is a platform showing the likely ways of their solution. This year, the Forum was held for the tenth time; TsAGI (a part of NRC “Zhukovsky Institute”) traditionally took part in it.
At the Army-2024, TsAGI organized the roundtable, Shaping regional industrial technology-transfer network between the aerospace industrial enterprises in Moscow Region science cities.
The roundtable was opened by Elena Pudalova, Head for Advanced Development, TsAGI. ‘The network should boost the solution of Russia’s strategic tasks in aircraft engineering, space exploration, and import substitution, by uniting efforts and informational and intellectual resources of the aerospace industrial enterprises in Moscow Region,’ she said.
‘A contemporary competitive product is a complicated science-intense system that unites results and achievement from different R&T areas. Technologies are progressing rapidly, and new interdisciplinary areas appear. To support the competitiveness, corporations just need to attract external competencies; speed and high mobility of such cooperation is relevant,’ said Anna Makurenkova, Head of Innovation Department, Center for Transferring Technologies, TsAGI.
The roundtable was attended by administration of TsAGI, CIAM, MAI, Bauman MSTU, JSC NPO Energomash, JSC Kompozit, UNITECH, and by employees of Zvezda Company, JSC Kompozit, Energia Corporation, MISIS, JSC NPO Lavochkin, MIPT, Rostec, and Mikoyan Design Bureau. The participants discussed the proposals for the interaction between industrial enterprises, research institutes, and educational organizations in Moscow Region under the network.
The meeting shaped the core activities of the network, such as information exchange on relevant R&T demands and breakthrough developments, joint innovative project implementation, interaction on R&T deliverable commercialization, high-skill HR training, etc.
The 10th International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2024” was hosted by Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre, the core expo platform of Russia’s Ministry of Defense, in Moscow Region, Kubinka, from August 12 to 14. It was traditionally organized by the Ministry of Defense. The wide business program embraced many events on relevant issues of national defense development, international military and technical cooperation, shaping of new technologies, etc.