EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: KHRUNICHEV

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001508 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/JAY HATFIELD USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: KHRUNICHEV STATE RESEARCHAD PROD. SPACE CENTER, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, LINCENSE NO. D395924 REFTEL: USDOC 02822 ¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. ¶2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license application D395924 as the ultimate consignee of Radiation Tolerant Field Programmable Gate Arrays. These items are controlled for national security, nuclear non-proliferation reasons under ECCN 3A001. The licensee is Actel Corporation, 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043. ¶3. Please note that Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is not/not the end-user of commodity in reftel. Khrunichev will put the satellite into orbit that has the reftel commodity has been integrated into. The end-user is NPP VNIIEM, All Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics with Plant named after A.G. Iosifian, Moscow, Russia. ¶4. On May 29, 2008, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested pre-license check at the offices of NPP VNIIEM, the Russian Federation Federal Space Agency, Federal Government Unitary Enterprise, Research and Production Enterprise, 4 Khoromny Blind Alley, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Vasily Parshin, Deputy General Director; Ilya Slobodskoy, Senior Project Manager for Space Systems; and Nina Pestmal, Director, Commercial Space Technologies Ltd. ¶5. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center was created by an RF presidential decree of 7 June 1993 on the base of the largest producers of aerospace and rocket technology: the Khrunichev Machine-building Plant and the Salyut Design Bureau. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is one of the world' s largest aerospace corporations leading the international market of space services. ¶6. NPP VNIIEM was founded on September 1941 for the development and production of military electrical engineering (communication facilities, power suppliers and armament). In the mid 1960s NPP VNIIEM became a parent organization in development and manufacture of spacecrafts for hydrometeorology and Earth remote sensing. Since 1963 up to 1998 more than 70 spacecraft such as three generations of "Meteor": " Meteor-Priroda", "Resours-Ol", "Electro" have been developed, launched and successfully operated in orbit. The Institute takes part in development and implementing of large space programs (orbital stations "Salyut", "Almaz", "Mir", "MKS", heavy rockets "Proton", "Soyuz" and others). The electrical equipment designed for control and protection systems of PWR type nuclear reactors and information-computing systems designed for RBMK type nuclear power plants have been developed by NPP VNIIEM. At present NPP VNIIEM is a multi-purpose firm and is engaged in meteorological research and application projects studying weather and climate. ¶7. According to Vasily Parshin, Deputy General Director, the commodity in subject reftel, Radiant Tolerant Field Programmable Gate Arrays, will become part of the KANAPUS satellite project. KANAPUS is the first international joint venture undertaken by NPP VNIIEM, and is being produced with Surry Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for real-time monitoring of man-caused emergency conditions and natural disasters. ¶8. NPP VNIIEM employs approximately 2000 scientists and research specialists, of those approximately 300 work primarily on the KANAPUS project. NPP VNIIEM has the technical and commercial sophistication and resources consistent with those of which the commodity in reftel was designed. NPP VNIIEM has a legitimate need for this technology and a legitimate stated and demonstrated end-use for the commodity in subject reftel. ¶9. NPP VNIIEM is under a strict timetable in the KANAPUS Satellite Project. ¶10. Recommendations: Post recommends NPP VNIIEM, All Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics with Plant named after A.G. Iosifian, Moscow, Russia, as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. It is requested that post be notified of final disposition of the application, and of any shipments for this organization in order to conduct appropriate FCS follow-up and statistical reporting. (FCS MOSCOW/SBOZEK/PLISTON) RUSSELL