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Director of Air Traffic Service
Avag Poghosyan is the Director of Air Traffic Service of ARMATS CJSC and has been managing Air Traffic Control Service since 1997 when the company was founded.
The scope of his responsibility, besides Air Traffic Services, includes the settlement of various issues on Airspace Management including the Civil-Military coordination, as well as the Air Traffic Flow Management in Yerevan Flight Information Region.
Within the period of his professional career he has been engaged in operational issues on Air Traffic Management to ensure safe and efficient Air Navigation Services. Along with this various activities on implementation of new principles and procedures of Air Traffic Services, based on ICAO Standards, as well as important steps for staff retraining and qualification upgrading have been taken under his leadership.
Avag Poghosyan graduated from Kirovograd Aviation College in 1969 and was qualified as an air traffic controller. He is a graduate of Leningrad Academy of Civil Aviation (1987).
From 1971-1980 he worked as an air traffic controller. In 1980 he was appointed ATC supervisor at the airport “Zvartnots”.
From 1993-1997 he held the position of Deputy Director General of ATC and CNS of the airport “Zvartnots”, at the same time carrying out the responsibility of the Head of ATC.

Director for Development and Policy
Eduard Pilosyan has been Director for Development and Policy of ARMATS since 2004. His accountabilities are the coordination of strategies and development programs of the company, the safety and quality management, the AIS and the training of the staff. He has particularly worked on development and implementation of SMS processes and procedures, including the promotion of safety culture at the different levels in company in cooperation with GDCA, on development of QMS, the long term development strategies and medium term business plans of the Company.
He previously was the Head of the ATM Department and Board member of Civil Aviation Authority of Armenia (GDCA, 1994-2004), the founding director of Armenian Air Navigation Service Provider ARMATS in 1997. He was managing the development and implementation of the new Armenian regulatory framework in ATM based on ICAO SARPs, EUROCONTROL ESARRs and EU Regulations, comprising the Aviation law, the Airspace Management Regulations, the Safety Regulatory Requirements and others.
Eduard started his career in software design and took up various technical and managerial posts in computer and software design and development (1978-1994). He has University degree in mathematics and postgraduate degree in computer sciences, author of 7 scientific publications.