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Alternative baneavisingsmidler og -metoder - en litteraturstudie
(2021-03-25)Formålet med denne litteraturstudien har vært å sammenstille informasjon som finnes om baneavisingsmidler og alternative metoder for å holde rullebaner snø- og isfrie. Målet har vært å finne en metode som ikke forårsaker ... -
Stolt fortid - spennende framtid - FFI 75 år
(2021-04-11)11. april 1946 vedtok Stortinget å opprette Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt. Nå har FFI levert kunnskap og ideer til et effektivt norsk forsvar i 75 år. Historien fortsetter. Her er fortellingene om en stolt fortid og ... -
Risikovurderinger og kriterier ved øvingsskyting som berører sivil grunn
(2021-03-12)Formålet med rapporten er å belyse hvilke kriterier som bør legges til grunn når man må drive øvingsskyting hvor deler av sikkehetsmalen for skytingen blir liggende utenfor skytefeltets grenser, det vil si på sivil grunn. ... -
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghrib’s Expansion in the Sahara: New Insights from Primary Sources
(2020-09-24)Although originating in Algeria, AQIM and its allies had by 2012 become so entrenched in the Sahel that they were in de-facto control of vast swathes of territory in northern Mali. This article explains how and why GSPC/AQIM ... -
Ship-of-opportunity noise inversions for geoacoustic profiles of a layered mud-sand seabed
(2019-04-30)This paper considers the use of broadband noise from a ship-of-opportunity in statistical inference for estimating geoacoustic parameters of a layered mud-sand seabed model via trans-dimensional (trans-D) Bayesian matched-field ... -
Motivasjon for førstegangstjeneste – en kvantitativ analyse av sesjonsdata 2009–2019
(2020-06-04)I første del av den todelte sesjonsordningen leverer alle 17-åringer inn en egenerklæring hvor de blant annet oppgir motivasjon for førstegangstjeneste. I over ti år har disse svarene vist at langt flere menn enn kvinner ... -
German-Norwegian relations in security and defence? What kind of partnership?
(2021-03-17)The article contributes to the debate on European defence cooperation and integration by analysing the German–Norwegian security and defence partnership. I define this partnership as being based upon mutual interests and ... -
A study of the Browning M2 Quick Change Barrel and problems experienced in the Norwegian Armed Forces
(2021-03-09)Norway has used the Browning M2 heavy machine gun for decades. The first guns were US weapons given to us through the Mutual Defence Assistance Program. They were M2 Heavy Barrel (HB) versions. All weapons were converted ... -
A2/AD and the missile threat - systems, countermeasures and models
(2021-03-12)In this report we discuss the (relatively) novel military term A2/AD, which is an acronym for Anti- Access/Area Denial. We cover both general aspects related to how the term should be understood, Russian A2/AD capabilities ... -
The Future of Jihadism in Europe: A Pessimistic View
(2016-12)This article presents a ten-year forecast for jihadism in Europe. Despite reaching historically high levels in recent years, violent Islamist activity in Europe may increase further over the long term due to four macrotrends: ... -
3-D Printed Monolithic GRIN Dielectric-Loaded Double-Ridged Horn Antennas
(2019-09-06)Monolithic integration of 3-D printed gradient index (GRIN) dielectric loading with a double-ridged rectangular horn standard gain horn (SGH) and its impact on antenna performance are demonstrated. Results show that the ... -
Predicting False Alarm Rates for High-Resolution Antisubmarine Warfare Sonars in a Cluttering Environment Prone to False Alarm Rate Inflation
(2019-09-13)Operation of high-resolution, broadband, antisubmarine warfare sonars in littoral waters is challenging, since the presence of sea mounts, underwater ridges, and other topographic features causes increased false alarm ... -
Modeling and Simulation as a Service infrastructure capabilities for discovery, composition and execution of simulation services
(2020-01-13)Modeling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) embodies the idea that simulations should be composed quickly for the task at hand from loosely coupled shared components, simulation services, in a cloud-based environment. ... -
The Importance of Significant Others in Preventing Extremism: The Philosophy and Practice of the Swedish Tolerance Project
(2020)This article concerns a specific educational programme to reduce recruitment to racist and extreme organizations in Sweden. The programme is called the Tolerance Project, and it functions as an elective course offered to ... -
Challenges for Risk and Security Modelling in Enterprise Architecture
(2019-11-19)From our experience cooperating with the Norwegian Armed Forces, we outline two interconnected challenges for modelling risk and security in an enterprise architecture: (1) modelling what is protected and why it is protected ... -
The subway microbiome: Seasonal dynamics and direct comparison of air and surface bacterial communities
(2019-12-19)Background Mass transit environments, such as subways, are uniquely important for transmission of microbes among humans and built environments, and for their ability to spread pathogens and impact large numbers of people. ... -
Ship source level estimation and uncertainty quantification in shallow water via Bayesian marginalization
(2020-04-17)This paper applies a non-linear Bayesian marginalization approach to ship spectral source level estimation in shallow water with unknown seabed properties and uncertain source depth. The algorithm integrates the posterior ... -
Coherent high-speed acoustic communication inside a commercial atlantic salmon pen
(2020-06-07)Fish telemetry is a potential method to monitor the well-being of farmed fish, where a reference group of fish are equipped with sensors tags that oversee their health and wirelessly transmit the data. Many fish must be ... -
Parameter selection in a fully adaptive tracking radar
(2020-04-27)A fully adaptive radar framework has been proposed in recent publications, and this paper will implement the framework for a tracking radar. A set of cost functions are developed to balance the performance cost of the track ... -
Simulation-supported wargaming for assessing force structures – methodology and best practices
(2021-02-26)When developing and assessing future force structures, wargaming is a key activity for gaining deeper insight and better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the force structures. Today, computer-based ...