Danish Defence Agreement 2013–17

Highlights

Army

• The Army should have the capacity to send a battalion on a short or long term deployment.
• The six battalions are restructured into three bigger ones.
• One battalion is on high readiness alert, with the ability to be shipped with short notice.
• Restructuring of military academic centers into:
• *Army International Center
• *Army Combat Center
• *Army Combat Support Center
• *Army Support Center
• *Army Special Center

Navy

• The Navy should have the capacity to send two units on a short term, short notice mission, or one big unit for a long term mission.
• Collecting the Navy's Special School and the Navy's NCO School under one school.

  Arctic

• Increase in enforcement of sovereignty.
• Collecting all North Atlantic commands under Arctic Command.
• Inspection cutter Tulugaq is replaced by a Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel.

  Airforce

• The Air Force should have the capacity to send up to three simultaneous contributions at short notice.
• Before the summer of 2015, a decision should be taken on the new type of fighter for the air force, between Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin F-35 and Eurofighter Typhoon.
• The Lynx helicopters are to be replaced by nine new MH-60R Seahawk helicopters.

  Joint Service

• An organizational collection of all officer academies.
• A collection of all military police.
• Collecting all of Intelligence Services under one headquarter.
• The creation of '''
• Restructuring the command structure:

• Defence Command
• *Army Operational Command
• *Operative Command of the Navy
• *Tactical Air Command

• Defence Command
• *Operations Staff
• *Coordination and Development Staff
• *Army Staff
• *Naval Staff
• *Air Staff
• *Special Operations Command