Improving the scientific and methodological foundations for strategic justification of infrastructure projects in the interests of Russia’s national security

The article is devoted to the problems of strategic justification of infrastructure projects, the financing of which is carried out with the involvement of the National Welfare Fund. The purpose of the study is to improve the scientific and methodological foundations of the strategic justification of an infrastructure project to increase the level of consistency of infrastructure projects with the system of strategic planning documents of the Russian Federation. General and general scientific cognition methods, methods of empirical and theoretical scientific cognition, and special methods determined by the essence of the object and subject of research were used in the work. The developed scientific and methodological foundations and proposals for the regulatory and legal regulation of the strategic justification of infrastructure projects in the interests of national safety of the Russian Federation are presented. The proposals presented in the article are intended to contribute to ensuring national safety and improving the competitiveness of the Russian Federation in the long term.

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