Swedish Defense Research Institute

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The Swedish Defense Research Institute , also the Swedish Defense Research Authority (Swedish: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut , literally: Research Institute of Comprehensive Preparedness ) is a Swedish research institution headquartered in Kista . Your tasks are research and development in the field of defense policy and civil protection. It reports to the Swedish Ministry of Defense. In 2007 it employed around 1000 people.

history

The FOI emerged in 2001 from the merger of the predecessor institutions, the Swedish Aviation Research Institute ( Flygtekniska försöksanstalten, short: FFA ) and the Swedish Research Institute for National Defense ( Försvarets forskningsanstalt, short: FOA ).

The FFA was founded in Bromma in 1940 as a state research institute for the Swedish aviation industry, mainly for military purposes.

The FOA itself was formed in 1945 from the merger of three institutions. In detail these were:

  • the Chemical Institute of the Swedish Armed Forces ( Försvarsväsendets kemiska anstalt, FKA ), which was founded in 1937 and emerged from research projects on chemical weapons at the universities of Lund and Uppsala ,
  • the Military Physics Institute ( Militärfysiska institutet, MFI ), which was established during World War II and
  • the Statens uppfinnarnämnd, SUN , which was founded in 1942 to research radar technology.

The FOA was instrumental in research into nuclear weapons until Sweden joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Utrikes namnbok: Svenska myndigheter, organizers, titlar, EU-organ och countries på engelska, tyska, franska, spanska, finska och ryska. , 10th revised Edition, Stockholm 2015, Utrikesdepartementet (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Keyword: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI) , p. 36.
  2. ↑ CORDIS : Scientists Mapping Boreal Forest , accessed August 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Sweden and the Bomb The Swedish Plans to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1972. ( online ; PDF; 460 kB)

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