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The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt – FFI) conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and military defence leaders. In particular, its task is to keep track of advances in the fields of science and military technology
Military technology

see also Military technology and equipment'Military technology a broad concept that deals with a range of systems which is distinctly not civilian in application....
 which might affect the assumptions on which Norwegian security policy and/or defence planning is based.

The institute was established in 1946, with its roots in British WWII
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 research, where many Norwegian scientists/technologists took part (their own country occupied by the Germans 1940–1945).






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The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt – FFI) conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and military defence leaders. In particular, its task is to keep track of advances in the fields of science and military technology
Military technology

see also Military technology and equipment'Military technology a broad concept that deals with a range of systems which is distinctly not civilian in application....
 which might affect the assumptions on which Norwegian security policy and/or defence planning is based.

The institute was established in 1946, with its roots in British WWII
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 research, where many Norwegian scientists/technologists took part (their own country occupied by the Germans 1940–1945). FFI has 550 employees, of which approximately 360 are scientists and engineers. The main location of the institute is at Kjeller
Kjeller

Kjeller is located near Lillestr?m in the municipality of Skedsmo, Norway. It is located 25 kilometers north of Oslo.Kjeller contains:*Kjeller Airport...
 near Lillestrøm
Lillestrøm

is an Unincorporated area city in the municipality of Skedsmo, Akershus, Norway. The municipal administration is located in Lillestr?m.'Facts:' ...
, 20 km east of the country's capital Oslo
Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
. The Kjeller area is a focus of research activity in south eastern Norway, with a total of some 2,400 people working at a variety of research establishments, colleges and university departments.

Part of the institute's Maritime Systems Division is situated in the coastal city of Horten
Horten

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Vestfold Counties of Norway, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten....
, southwest of Oslo on the western side of the Oslofjord
Oslofjord

The Oslofjord is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbj?rnskj?r fyrstasjon and F?rder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north....
. Horten is known as the country's MEMS capital, and is also a center of electronics and naval research and industry.

In way of concrete technology products, FFI is known for, among other things:
  • The development of a range of computers in the early 1960s which eventually led to the creation of Norsk Data
    Norsk Data

    Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s....
     as well as Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk (KV)
    Kongsberg Gruppen

    Kongsberg Gruppen is Norway's major defence contractor and maritime automation supplier, located in and named after former mining town Kongsberg....
    's Computer Division:
    • LYDIA (1962)
    • SAM
    • SAM2
  • The development, with KV's Division of Guided Weapons
    Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace

    Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace , one of two operating companies of Kongsberg Gruppen of Norway, is a supplier of defence contractor and space technology systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications....
    , of the Penguin
    Penguin missile

    The Rb 12 Penguin anti-ship missile , made by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway from the early 1970s and continually upgraded since, is a infrared homing based short-to-medium range naval cruise missile....
     anti-ship missile


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