The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS, german: Eidgenössisches Departement für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport, french: Département fédéral de la défense, de la protection de la population et des sports, it, Dipartimento federale della difesa, della protezione della popolazione e dello sport, rm, ) is one of the seven
departments of the
Swiss federal
government
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. It is headed by a member of the
Swiss Federal Council
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, the Swiss
defence minister.
Organisation
The department is composed of the following departmental sectors:
* General Secretariat
*
Swiss Armed Forces
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** Land Forces
**
Air Force
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** Armed Forces Logistics Organisation
** Armed Forces Command Support Organisation
*
Federal Office for Civil Protection
** Coordination of the
civil protection
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services of the cantons and municipalities
**
National Emergency Operations Centre
The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) (German: ''Nationale Alarmzentrale'', French: ''Centrale nationale d'alarme'', Italian: ''Centrale nazionale d'allarme'') is a government organisation of the Swiss Confederation based in Zürich. ...
**
Spiez Laboratory, responsible for
weapons of mass destruction
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research and protection
*
Federal Office of Sport
The Federal Office of Sport (FOSPO) is the Swiss federal government's centre for expertise in sports and a part of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports. Its mission is to promote sports and exercise in all age gro ...
Federal Office of Sport
** Responsible for sport policy, the National Youth Sports Centre
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Tenero and the Youth and Sport organisation.
* Federal Office for Defence Procurement
* Federal Office of Topography
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(Swisstopo)
* Office of the Military Attorney General
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: The military prosecutor's office.
* Federal Intelligence Service
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(FIS): Switzerland's civil intelligence service.
Name of department
*1848: Military Department
* 1979: Federal Military Department
* Since 1998: Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport
List of heads of the department
See also
* Sport in Switzerland
Notes and references
External links
Official website
{{Portal bar, Politics, War, Sports, Switzerland
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Defence ministries
Sport in Switzerland
1848 establishments in Switzerland