FRA

Founded in 1942, FRA is a defense company based in Lovön, Sweden working in c4isr, communications & satcom.

FRA, the National Defence Radio Establishment, is a civil authority subordinated to the Swedish Ministry of Defence and the national authority for signals intelligence. It collects and analyses information on foreign conditions, including military threats to Sweden, and supplies intelligence to the Government, the Swedish Armed Forces and other authorities. FRA also provides cyber defence, detecting and countering advanced cyber-attacks against Swedish critical national IT infrastructure, and since November 2024 is responsible for the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Through its Kryptoservice, it supplies nationally approved signals protection systems and secure communication equipment, including crypto solutions for files, voice, fax, Ethernet and VPN, to government authorities and selected civilian operators handling sensitive information. The headquarters is at Lovön, west of Stockholm, and the agency has around 1,300 employees.