He held his first government position that same year, when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and Rector of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan.

Is appointment was part of plans to "establish civilian control over military structures within the state", according to the National Security Council Secretary.

[7] He led Uzbek military cooperation with the United States following the September 11 attacks and the start of Global War On Terror.

He critically analyzed a number of theoretical approaches to the processes of birth of particles on nuclei, some of them removed from the scientific circulation or established the limits of their applicability, which allowed to establish the general structure of such processes and revealed the dominant mechanisms in different kinematic collisions areas and played an important role in the search for collective effects.

In his scientific career, he performed a critical analysis of a number of theoretical approaches to the processes of particle production on nuclei.