Ten major areas of technology have been identified by experts. A number of technology goals were set in relation to these areas, specifically the development of specialist equipment including wheels for use on snow and marshland and vehicles equipped with caterpillar tracks and fitted with autonomous accommodation modules, the installation of offshore rigs, drilling platforms and engineering equipment made of cold-resistant steel, as well as continuously-operating underwater robotic equipment for use in hydrocarbon prospecting and extraction, and the introduction of aerial and underwater drones for use in research, intelligence operations and monitoring ice cover.

A group of leading Russian universities, including the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a number of universities in the Russian Arctic proposed the creation of a comprehensive R&D program in order to promote the development of the Arctic. According to Dmitry Livanov, the dean of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the program will be submitted for the consideration of the State Committee for the Development of the Arctic within two to three months.