The features of the knowledge economy and knowledge fundamental role in the formation of the national innovation space are analyzed; economic function of knowledge, institutional mechanisms for the production of knowledge are revealed. Factors and areas that affect the creation of new knowledge are characterized. Organizing mechanism of interaction of the national innovation system subjects is grounded and presented.

Characteristics of the two main approaches to modeling of management processes are described. The first of them is the system-cybernetic (separation of the control procedures in processes), the second is modeling stages of the company development by L. Greiner (partition of the cycle stages of organization). Each approach of business process modeling is viewed using simple charts and tables. The purpose of research is to acquaint managers of companies with the most effective management systems in order to the enterprise the correct organizational development of the company. The general laws of building optimal crisis management mechanisms now is given.

Below is the original author's method of assessment of financial and economic sustainability of enterprises-performers of the state defense order. This method takes into account the financial and economic performance of the enterprise. The proposed comprehensive indicator of financial and economic sustainability can be used by the state customer at the stage of analyzing the possibility of the state contract execution by potential contractors.

We consider structural measures of companies whose stocks are the federal property. Various ways concerning developing efficiency rankings for those companies are also considered.