Advanced Research Foundation

The history of the Fund began on September 22, 2010, when the Presidential Commission on Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy set the task of the Ministry of Defense to submit proposals on creating a separate structure in the field of ordering and supporting breakthrough, high-risk research and development in the interests of state defense and security modernization of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as the creation of technologies and dual-use products, including taking into account foreign experience ^[3] . In the same year, at the initiative of the Deputy Minister of Defense Dmitry Chushkin, a unit for the collection and examination of proposals in the interests of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Research Center for Defense Decisions, was established at Voentelecom OJSC ^[4] .

The initiative to create a separate organization was again initiated by the Government at the end of 2011, when Dmitry Rogozin was appointed deputy prime minister. He initiated the revision of the proposals collected by that time for the project of the National Security and Development Fund and completed the preparation of the Federal Law “On the Foundation for Advanced Research” ^[5] , which was submitted to the State Duma ^[6] (bill and accompanying documents, justifications and feedback on the Federal Law )

In fact, the Fund began operations in early 2013, when the budget, staff and management of the Fund were approved. The research areas of the Foundation were approved later - on August 7, 2013, when the first 8 supported projects were approved at a meeting of the Board of Trustees ^[7] .

The main activities of the fund:

Information Research

• Promising information processing and transmission systems
• Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Technology
• Cybersecurity
• Social networks
• Detection technology

Physical and technical research

• High Speed ​​Tools
• Digital production
• Promising underwater technology
• Intelligent weapons

Chemical, biological and medical research

• Promising medicine
• Promising materials
• Promising energy sources
• Integrated Biosystems
• Bionics

National Center for the Development of Technologies and Basic Elements of Robotics

Projects of the Advanced Research Fund are aimed at finding solutions to especially significant scientific and technical problems, which, in particular, will determine the appearance of weapons of war and dual-use systems in 20-30 years. In terms of their content and planning horizon, they complement the activities of the State armament program, as well as federal targeted programs in the field of national defense and security ^[8] .

• "Rescuer" ^[9] - a project to create an anthropomorphic robot for working in dangerous conditions for humans, including for use in space. See also Fedor (robot) .
• The Herbarium ^[10] is an all-Russian project whose goal is to create the first domestic integrated platform as a tool for the collective development and distribution of engineering engineering software that is not inferior to advanced world analogues. The project was launched by the Advanced Research Foundation in March 2015.
• “Owl” ^[11] is a project to create the first Russian solar-powered atmospheric satellite. The project is being implemented by the Advanced Research Foundation and the Tiber company. The creation of a stratospheric satellite of this type can solve the problem of long-term monitoring in the northern latitudes, as well as a number of telecommunication tasks. Tests of the atmospheric satellite in the format of a two-day non-stop flight were successfully completed in July 2016.
• “Quartz” ^[12] is a project to create storage media with unlimited data retention. A joint project of the Foundation for Advanced Research and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia . The performer of the project is the RHTU im. D.I. Mendeleev.
• “Hammock” ^[13] is a project to create an autonomous system of quantum distribution of cryptographic keys (see also Quantum cryptography ) based on standard telecommunication infrastructure. The contractor is the Laboratory of Quantum Optical Technologies, jointly established by the Advanced Research Foundation and the Physics Department of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov .
• Team 112 is a federal volunteer emergency project. The official name is “The system of collective processing of spatial data” (SCOPD) (the executor is the Research Institute of Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia) ^[14] .

The Foundation for Advanced Research conducts open competitions in cases where there is an urgent scientific problem, but there are no concrete ideas for solving it, or in cases where there is no performer with a promising idea for its implementation. So, in December 2016, the Fund launched an open competition for the best demonstrator of an aircraft of vertical or ultra-short take-off and landing ^[15] . In the fall of 2016, a competition was announced for the best intelligent technology for decoding aerospace information (together with the Skolkovo aerospace cluster). One of the stated goals of the competition was to identify Russian research teams capable of creating intelligent technologies for recognizing objects of various classes.

Other contests held by the Advanced Research Foundation:

• competition for the best project to create a laboratory on the basis of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle ^[16] (winner - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology );

• competition for the best demonstration model of face recognition technology ^[17] (winner - FSUE GosNIIAS );

• to develop an augmented reality demonstrator for the maintenance and repair of weapons, military and special equipment ^[18] (the winner is JSC Center for Shipbuilding and Shiprepair Technology);

• Call for Proposals “New Approaches to Ensuring Non-Suppressable Communications”. The competition was held in two categories - “Self-organizing personal radio communication network” (winner - St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation ) and “Noise-Immune Communication System” (winner - Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics ).

• In November 2013, the contents of the trial version of the Foundation’s portal site was indexed by search engines and for some time it was publicly available. It turned out that the organization’s internal portal was located at rs.fpi.do-nothing.ru ^[19] .

• Official website of the Advanced Research Foundation

• Report of the Public Council of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation “Foundation for Advanced Research in the Defense Innovation System”, 2013 DOI: 10.13140 / RG.2.2.19127.73123 .

• Rosatom helps to develop new optics for the fight against terrorism RIA, 01/28/2015.

• Battle Android and other secret developments of the RF Armed Forces. Expert online, 11/15/2014.

• The plot of the military-industrial conference on robotics and UAVs on the channel "Russia 24" Russia 24, 10/04/2014.