Ministry of Defence
Tore O. Sandvik (Lab.)
Minister of Defence
The Ministry of Defence is a Government Office with responsibility for the formation and implementation of Norwegian security and defence policy.
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Latest from the Ministry of Defence
What's new
- The Ministry of Defence and Navantia have through a judicial mediation settled the Helge Ingstad case News story 02/06/2025
- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited Norway News story 22/05/2025
- Norway is adjusting its guidelines in Finnmark to enable more training with Sweden and Finland News story 22/05/2025
- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to visit Norway for the first time News story 21/05/2025
- Norway proposes Bodø as location for new NATO air operations centre News story 20/05/2025
- Norway to extend agreement on medical evacuation from Ukraine News story 09/05/2025
Documents
- Roadmap for expanding production capacity in the defence industry Plans/strategy 24/03/2025
- The Norwegian Defence Pledge Plans/strategy 05/04/2024
- Prop. 87 S (2023–2024) - The Norwegian Defence Pledge Proposition 05/04/2024
- The Norwegian Government's Action Plan on Gender and Sexual Diversity (2023–2026) Plans/strategy 06/09/2023
- Future Acquisitions For the Norwegian Defence Sector 2023–2030 Plans/strategy 22/05/2023
- Annual report 2020: Women, peace and security Report 01/02/2022
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Contact
E-mail: postmottak@fd.dep.no
Phone:
+ 47 23 09 80 00
Address:
Pb. 8126 Dep., 0032 Oslo
Visitor address:
Glacisgata 1, 0150 Oslo