Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport

Organisation

• General Secretariat
• Swiss Armed Forces
• * Land Forces
• * Air Force
• * Armed Forces Logistics Organisation
• * Armed Forces Command Support Organisation
• Federal Office for Civil Protection
• * Coordination of the civil protection services of the cantons and municipalities
• * National Emergency Operations Centre
• * Spiez Laboratory, responsible for weapons of mass destruction research and protection
• Federal Office of Sport
• * Responsible for sport policy, the National Youth Sports Centre Tenero and the Youth and Sport organisation.
• Federal Office for Defence Procurement
• Federal Office of Topography
• Office of the Military Attorney General: The military prosecutor's office.
• Federal Intelligence Service : 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