EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AKNIIPO ANO,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001946 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/LRITTER USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AKNIIPO ANO, MOSCOW, RUSSIA. REFTELS: REQUEST FORM #04210017; DATED 6/04/2009 ¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. ¶2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, AKNIIPO ANO, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications: NLR as the ultimate consignee of forty eight electronic integrated circuits and micro assemblies, digital field programmable gate arrays, product no:APA450-PQ2081. These items are controlled for national security, missile technology, nuclear non-proliferation and anti-terrorism reasons under ECCN 3A001. The licensee is Actel Corporation, 2061 Stierlin CT, Mountain View, CA. ¶3. On July 29, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment verification at the offices of AKNIIPO ANO (Aerospace Scientific and Research Test Industrial Company, Automated Non-Commercial Organization),5, Aviatsionny Pereulok, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Dmitry Kholomkin, General Director and Pavel Turikin, Department Head. ¶4. AKNIIPO ANO was created in 2001, when three companies, Rocket-Space Corporation Energy, Holding Company Aviapribor and Russian Scientific Research Institute Electrostandart, joined together. It has 60 full time employees and approximately 300 under various contracts for special projects. ¶5. AKNIIPO ANO is licensed by the Russian government to produce and develop various finished components for space exploration projects. ¶6. The commodities in reftel were purchased by AKNIIPO ANO for use in a joint space exploration project with NASA involving the Fobos-Grunt mission. The missionQs objectives are to collect soil samples from Fobos, a moon of mars and to bring the samples back to Earth for comprehensive scientific research into Fobos, Mars and Martian space. ¶7. The commodities in reftel were not located in the consigneeQs facility because they have already been placed onboard the Russian launch vehicle that is scheduled for an October launch. The commodities do appear to be being used for the end use for which they were licensed. There were no indications of impropriety and the consigneeQs answers were not evasive. ¶8. Recommendations: Post recommends AKNIIPO ANO, Moscow, Russia, as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) AGNEW