The paper deals with life cycle management of a 3-D printer technology to design an underwater drone hull to study the Arctic. The Arctic region is of strategic importance for the Russian Federation and the entire world community. Due to harsh climatic conditions the scientists started to search for more efficient ways of not only using resources of the territory but also retaining sustainable development of the region. The paper presents a graph that includes activities involved in a 3-D printer life cycle design. A 3-D printer is used for a layer growth of an underwater drone’s hull. The authors took into consideration all the existing options of development, operation and disposal of a particular 3D printer and identified eight variants of its life cycle design based on various financial resources and timing budgets. The study helped to identify a number of effective options. Information and mathematical systems support the implementation of the life cycle management of technology. We selected the following mathematical tools: mathematical programming methods, mathematical statistics, process simulation tools, routine problems, queuing theories. The paper focuses on such information management tools as systems programs, development programs and application software.

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Transportation holds an important position in the context of global economy and international business, as its use is necessary to create interconnections and new processes within various economic systems. The following factors are to be taken into account in order to increase demand for transportation services: economic growth, increase in production and sales, rise in profitability, globalization, integration of international markets and emergence of new approaches to logistics itself. There is a need to increase efficiency and competitiveness of transportation services. The parties involved in the process have to solve the problems concerning their technological, technical and commercial interaction. To provide the organizations engaged in transportation with an opportunity to perform their functions in a qualitative manner, there is also a need to form market segments of transportation services. The steady growth of foreign trade between countries, the increasing influence of global economic processes on the activities of firms provide for the logistics companies to seek the ways to cut costs and to build up competitive advantages. The analysis of export and import statistics shows an increase in foreign trade between the European and Asian countries which makes it necessary to draw attention of logistics companies to new, “faster” transport corridors. The Northern Sea Route is now under close scrutiny by many countries, even outside the pool of circumpolar states. The authors developed certain stages of assessment of the impact of global trends on the activities of international logistics companies within the framework of the problem under study.