Military-Industrial Commission of Russia
The Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation was established by a presidential decree in March 2006. According to the decree, it is a permanently functioning body with vast responsibilities for supervising the distribution and implementation of the "State defense order". The commission answers directly to the President of Russia. It coordinates between the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and the defense industry of Russia. Until then, the defense industry was supervised by Russia's Ministry of Industry and Energy, as well as by the previous government consultative body with a similar name.
The VPK of the Russian Federation shares the name of the former Soviet Military Industrial Commission, which served as a central management body for the Soviet defense industry. The VPK was an inner circle of the Council of Ministers, and the first deputy chairman of the Council headed it. The Soviet VPK's primary function was to facilitate plan fulfilment by easing bottlenecks, enforcing inter-ministerial cooperation, and overseeing the availability of resources.
Commission members
- Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces
- Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
- First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
- First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia
- Aide to the President
- Minister of Defense of Russia
- Chief of the General Staff
- Deputy Minister of Defense
- Director of the Russian National Guard
- Director of the FSB
- General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
- Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia
- Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia
- Minister of Economic Development of Russia
- General Director of Roscosmos
- Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia
- General Director of Rostec State Corporation