The defense-industry complex (DIC) of the Russian Federation plays significantly the significant role not only regarding ensuring defense capability of the country, but also in economy as the leader of high technologies and progressive methods of production management. Key aspects (the directions and conditions) activation of program-project production management at enterprises DIC are considered from positions certainly of necessary ensuring defense capability of the country. Achievement of

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... s purpose requires the managerial tools allowing to try to obtain and support on corresponding world the competitiveness level of DIC products and the managerial mechanism. As perspective the method of program-project management is considered by a pilot-serial production of DIC. The theoretical bases of activation of programproject management on defense industry enterprises which are defined by the competition of interests in the internal and external markets of the enterprises and DIC organizations, the states in general are considered by production. The driving forces of the competition promoting activation of program-project management by production on defense industry enterprises are marked out. Methodological aspects of activation of program-project management by production of defense industry enterprises from positions of types of the competition: social, economic, ecological, institutional and technological, causing competitiveness from the point of view of sustainable development are defined. It is shown that achievement of competitiveness by defense industry enterprises by these types of the competition is provided with the competitive managerial mechanism as a part of the mechanisms of organization, motivations and informatizations, each of which has elements of planning and control. A research purpose is preparation of the theoretical and methodological basis for elaboration of the mechanism model of programproject management by a pilot-serial production on defense-industry enterprises.