75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE FROM THE NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT (FFI) 1946–2021 PROUD PAST, EXCITING FUTURE FFI 75 years 3 VITEN IS NORWEGIAN FOR 'KNOWLEDGE' AND IS FFI'S MAGAZINE AIMED AT A WIDER AUDIENCE. THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION TO CELEBRATE FFI'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY. 2 FFI 75 years NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT On 11 April 1946, the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) decided to establish the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). FFI has now been supplying knowledge and ideas for an effective Norwegian defence for 75 years. The story continues. Here are the stories of a proud past and an exciting future. FFI 75 years 1 PUBLISHER: FFI PROJECT MANAGER: Grethe Skaugvoll EDITOR: Lars Aarønæs 04 40 DESIGN: Grete Alvestad Tina Hay Iversen James Bond and I A lifetime of construction kits Isabel Nordang PHOTOGRAPHY: Espen Wang-Naveen
[email protected] COVER/ILLUSTRATIONS: Martin Hvattum / ByHands CONTRIBUTORS: Bjørn Fremstad Wenche Gerhardsen Anne-Lise Hammer Espen Hofoss Jan Olav Langseth Ålov Runde Tone Elisabeth Vesteng Solberg PHOTO: Lars-Erik Berg Fieldmade Forsvaret Terje Heiestad Director General John-Mikal Størdal is fond of secrets. He put his mark on the institute for a quarter of a Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace Now, he is sharing some of them with us. century. Meccano construction kits set the course. KDA FFI, too, was a construction kit for the remarkable NAMMO NASA / JPL-Caltech Director General and national strategist Finn Lied. Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum Norsk Romsenter / UTIAS / AdobeStock NTB Espen Rasmussen / VG Reuters / Rosatom Paul White / TT Nyhetsbyrån FFI 02.2021 Printing: 07 gruppen Edition: 500 (06/2021) P ISBN: 978-82-464-3323-3 E ISBN: 978-82-464-3324-0 P ISSN: 2535-2679 E ISSN: 2535-2687 30 The penguin learned to fly 66 They study terrorism When Norway’s first research and development The researchers in the TERRA Project are now among project was launched, it was really too big an under- the world`s most knowledgeable on international Follow us: Facebook taking for such a small country.