"State arms and materiel orders will be fulfilled in the volumes planned in the budget," said Lyubov Kudelina.
Kudelina said the Defense Ministry would transfer 65 billion rubles ($1.9 billion), to producers by the end of this week. She also said the ministry would transfer 35% of military contract payments in the first quarter of 2009.
The government is to disburse a total of 1.3 trillion rubles ($37 billion) to defense contractors this year.
The state arms production budget for 2009-11 has been approved at 4 trillion rubles ($115 billion).
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last week that Russia's major aircraft maker, MiG Corp., would receive 11 billion rubles ($308 million) in the first quarter of the year as part of a 17.3 billion-ruble ($485 million) state defense contract.
He also said the company had losses of some 11 billion rubles in 2008, and announced that he had signed a resolution allocating a further 15 billion rubles ($417 million) in federal budget funds to the corporation.
Last year, MiG, along with other "strategic" companies, was promised funding through the government's anti-crisis package, specifically firm production orders from the Russian Air Force.
