Swedish Defence Research Agency (Swedish: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI) is a government agency in Sweden for defence research that reports to the Ministry of Defence The activities of FOI include research, development of technology and analysis, primarily for military defence, but also for civil emergency, security and other civilian applications.
Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) has experts in many fields of application, such as security policy studies and analyses of defence and security, assessments of various types of threats, systems for crisis leadership and management, protection against and management of hazardous substances, IT security and the opportunities provided by new sensors.
FOI has experts in many fields of application, such as security policy studies and analyses of defence and security, assessments of various types of threats, systems for crisis leadership and management, protection against and management of hazardous substances, IT security and the opportunities provided by new sensors.
They conduct research in many areas including:
- Measurement of and protection against the emission of CBRN substances. They also have one of the few security classified CBRN laboratories in Europe that is licensed to receive and examine all types of hazardous substances.
- Protection and detection of explosive substances
- Reading underwater signatures on ships in brackish and coastal waters.
- Constructing models of turbulent flows, such as air currents around aircraft or underwater currents.
- Designing models and tools to adapt society to the consequences of climate change.
- Strategic and security policy analyses within a large number of geographic areas, such as Asia and Africa, as well as thematic analyses, such as emergency preparedness, the economy and the climate.
- Long-term research on IT security and human system interaction.
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