Akuta JSC holds a license administered by the FSB “to carry out work related to the use of information constituting a state secret”. The FSB license is issued to IT companies that develop encryption and cryptography technology, information systems, and telecommunication systems for the Russian intelligence services, as well as IT companies that develop “personal database management systems” for the Russian security services (i.e. tools specifically designed to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of data obtained through, for example, social media scraping or other intelligence gathering practices). Additionally, Akuta holds a license administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. This license administered by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade serves for the “development, production, testing, installation, maintenance, disposal and sale of weapons and military equipment”. In particular, Akuta JSC produces “Unmanned Undersea Vehicles” (UUV) for the Russian Armed Forces, which are deployed for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, anti-submarine warfare, information operations, and time-critical strikes. The entity describes itself as operating in the Russian IT sector, working “mainly within the framework of the [Russian] state defense order [with] larger enterprises of the [Russian] military-industrial complex”. Akuta furthermore holds a license “for activities in the field of creating information security”, which is administered by the 8th directorate of the GRU, that is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.