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The Association has been named a key participant in shaping the industry’s 10-year roadmap

Why do Russian autonomous-transport technologies remain pilot projects? How can a successful case in one region be turned into a mass solution for the whole country? And what role do industry associations play in this? These questions were answered by the Chairman of the Board of the National Autonomous Systems Association, Dmitry Afanasyev, in his address at the strategic panel “The autonomous transport of the future: law, the city, the individual” as part of Drone Expo 2026 in Kazan.

Kazan, 8 July 2026 — At the international Drone Expo 2026, the Chairman of the Board of the National Autonomous Systems Association, Dmitry Afanasyev, presented a five-step programme for building a personnel system for Russia’s autonomous economy. The presentation took place at the round table “Personnel special forces: professions of the future that will safeguard the country” and the expert session “UAS export: entering the global market”.

INNOPROM has summed up the first national ranking of regions by their readiness to deploy UAS. Yekaterinburg, 7 July 2026 — the Federal UAS Centre, together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, presented the results of the first national dronification ranking of Russian regions. 84 regions were assessed against 29 indicators — from the size of the UAS-services market to the speed of issuing flight permits. The main conclusion: the infrastructure has been built, but the mass use of drones in civilian industries is still a long way off.

Yekaterinburg, 7 July 2026 — At the country’s main industrial exhibition, INNOPROM 2026, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia presented the results of the national technology-leadership programme “Unmanned Aircraft Systems”. The results show that the industry has made a qualitative leap — from experiments to industrial production. The National Autonomous Systems Association, which unites leading UAS manufacturers and operators, welcomes the figures achieved and sees in them confirmation of the industry’s readiness for a new stage of development — the mass adoption of unmanned technologies in the civilian sectors of the economy.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 4 July 2026 — Sakhalin State University (SakhSU) and the NAS Association signed a cooperation agreement on the development of autonomous systems.

3–5 July 2026, Ulyanovsk Region — Evgeny Rebizov of the NAS Association took part in the Summer Merge IT anti-conference, where a mass consumer drone-delivery service operated commercially for the first time in Russia.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 3 July 2026 — At the international “Wings of Sakhalin” forum of unmanned vehicles for all domains, the Association of Operators and Manufacturers of Autonomous Systems “National Autonomous Systems” (NAS) concluded two key strategic partnership agreements: with GLONASS JSC and the Government of the Sakhalin Region.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, July 2026 — As part of the international “Wings of Sakhalin” forum of unmanned vehicles for all domains, a plenary session was held that brought together federal ministers, regional heads, and representatives of industry, science and technology companies. Over two hours of discussion the participants travelled from the geopolitics of the Arctic to the engineering of underwater robots, acknowledging: unmanned technologies have ceased to be a niche — they are becoming the foundation of a new economy.

The 9th All-Russian conference “Protecting civilian facilities from unmanned-system attacks and the infrastructure for operating UAS / counter-UAS 2026” has concluded in St Petersburg — the largest gathering in the event’s history of experts on countering threats from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Moscow, 1 July 2026 — The project office of the National Technology Initiative (the NTI Platform) hosted a strategy session on updating the NTI Aeronet legislative roadmap (LRM). The event brought together representatives of federal authorities, regulators, developers, operators and infrastructure centres — all the key participants in the unmanned aircraft systems ecosystem.

The strategic agreement covers unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous transport, robotics and artificial-intelligence technologies.

At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a new stage of cooperation between the state and the autonomous systems industry has begun.