EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NOVATEST, MOSCOW,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000741 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/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: NOVATEST, MOSCOW, RUSSIA. REFTEL: E-MAIL #207003 DATED 3/13/2009 ¶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, Novatest, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications: NLR as the ultimate consignee of two optical instruments, appliances, electronic devices and components, two electrical machines and apparatus, and other navigation direction finding equipment, airborne communication equipment, all aircraft inertial navigation systems. These items are controlled for national security, anti-terrorism, missile technology, nuclear non-proliferation and regional stability reasons under ECCN 3A001, 3A992 and 7A994. The licensee is Lansmont Corporation, 17 Mandeville Court, Monterey, CA ¶93940. ¶3. On March 23, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment verification at the offices of Novatest, 7A, Staropetrovsky proezd, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Gennady Levkovsky, General Director. ¶4. Novatest was founded in 2005 from a former division of the ASM Test and Measurement company. Mr. Levkovsky is the sole owner of Novatest, and had worked for ASM for 12 years prior to the creation of Novatest. The company provides testing and measurement equipment to various end users throughout Russia and the CIS countries. Novatest employs 50 people in four office locations: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Ukraine. The principal end users for this equipment are in the metallurgical field. Novatest carries equipment from several manufacturers, most notably Instron, LDS vibration testing devises and Rotodata Telemetry Systems for turbine engines. Novatest was the subject of a previous positive end use check on March 2, 2006. ¶5. The commodities in reftel were imported by Novatest as parts of a transportation vibration recorder system, also called a shaker, with GPS options. All shakers less than 4 tons come under export control. Novatest imports approximately 20 shaker systems a year. The end user of the reftel commodities, Scientific-Production Association of Applied Mechanics, is a producer of telecommunication satellites located in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The satellites are transported to the Russian launch facility in Kazakhstan by railroad. During transport, the reftel commodity will record, and transmit back to Krasnoyarsk, any shock or serious vibration to the satellite. ¶6. The export control team was provided a copy of the sale contract and shipping records for the reftel commodities, thereby accounting for the entire shipment. The equipment was used for the end use for which it was licensed. There were no indications of impropriety and Gennady LevkovskyQs answers were not evasive to the export control team. ¶7. Recommendations: Post recommends Novatest, Moscow, Russia, as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) BEYRLE