The State Administration Database

Department for Defence Policy, Planning and Capability Development

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2004* Founding by complex reorganization

Name: Department of Defence Policy and Long Term Planning
Short name: FD IV
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Superior body: Ministry of Defence
Located: 301 Oslo

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2025* Change of name

Name: Department for Defence Policy, Planning and Capability Development
Short name: Avdeling for forsvarspolitikk og planlegging

Tasks:
The Department of Defence Policy and Long Term Planning is responsible for strategic analysis, the development of long-term defence policy and overall planning for the defence sector.

This entails the responsibility for the follow-up and analysis of fundamental development trends of relevance to the defence sector, the development of a unified overall long-term policy in areas bearing on developments in defence, providing superior guidelines for information technology development as well as the development of defence policy aims and tasks. The department is furthermore responsible for defence investments up until the investment decision is being made.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2025

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.