Import Substitution or Import Independence. Searching for the Alternatives when Creating Radio Electronic Equipment

Abstract

. The paper offers an alternative way for solving some issues of import independence in the field of radio electronic equipment in the space industry. The offered solution is based on the system approach when considering the range of the electronic component base (ECB) not as independent components, but the elements of a higher level system. Moreover, the article shows that coping or functional reproducing even the local subset of foreign ECB is economically and technically unpromising. The radio electronic equipment for aerospace purposes does not need outstanding technological parameters of ECB. Although, unification and stability of technological processes are required to provide a high reliability of the products. In addition, succession and unification of the interfaces of wire lines, sensors, sensor-converting equipment, and algorithmic base is needed. Under such conditions, the influence of weight, dimensions, power consumption, and reliability of the above-mentioned devices on the parameters of the onboard system is constantly growing. Consideration of these design features makes it possible to have a well-grounded confidence in the success not in literal import substitution, but in providing import independence, which is achieved using the items with the maximum influence on the parameters of the upper level systems.