Ministry of Defence (Norway)

Ministry of Defence

Agency overview
Formed	September 30, 1814; 210 years ago (1814-09-30)
Preceding agencies	Ministry of the Army [no] Ministry of the Navy
Jurisdiction	Government of Norway
Headquarters	Glacisgata 1, Oslo, Norway[1]
Annual budget	Nok.60 million (2009/10)
Agency executives	Bjørn Arild Gram, Minister of Defence Øystein Bø, State Secretary Erik Lund-Isaksen, Secretary General
Child agency	Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet Forsvarets forskinginstitutt Forsvarsbygg
Website	http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fd.html?id=380

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence (Norwegian: Det kgl. Forsvarsdepartement) is a Norwegian government ministry in charge of the formation and implementation of national security and defence policy, and for the overall management and control of the activities of subordinate agencies. The ministry is located at Glacisgata 1, Oslo, inside Akershus festning. The ministry is headed by the politically appointed Minister of Defence, currently Bjørn Arild Gram.^[2] The ministry controls a large group of defence-related agencies, not to be related with Ministry of Foreign Affairs that controls all intelligence-related agencies in the country.^{[citation needed]}