Confederation / Defence, Civil Protection and Sport / Nachrichtendienst des Bundes
Administrative unit 503 · VBS
Nachrichtendienst des Bundes NDB
What schwur.ch can document about this office: its own spending over the years and the subsidies it pays out.
Management
- Serge Alexandre BavaudDirektor
As the Federal Chancellery's Staatskalender names the head of this unit – name and function only.
Own operations over the years
| Measure | 2023Accounts | 2024Accounts | 2025Accounts | 2026Budget | 2027Budget (draft) | 2028Planning | 2029Planning | 2030Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-time positionsfull-time equivalents | 407 | 411 | 423 | 427 | 495 | – | – | – |
| Staff expenditurem CHF | 73.0 | 74.7 | 77.9 | 78.4 | 91.3 | 97.9 | 102.6 | 103.6 |
| ITm CHF | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Consultancy and external servicesm CHF | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Values from the file «Institutionen». Accounts, budget and plan stand side by side; planned figures are never added to accounts.
2027: the budget as the Federal Council proposes it to Parliament (dispatch of August). Parliament adopts it in the winter session; until then it may still change.
In the file as: Nachrichtendienst des Bundes
Subsidies 2025
This office's credits in the Finance Administration's subsidy database, with the amount for 2025.
| Credit | Title | Task area | m CHF 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A231.0105 | Kantonale Nachrichtendienste | Sicherheit | 18.0 |
Not here yet
The Confederation publishes these figures; schwur.ch has not read them in yet:
- Performance groups with basic mandate, goals and indicators (Band 2)
- Global budget and every credit with budget and financial plan (Band 2)
- Commitment credits and payment ceilings (Band 1B)
Not public. What a single service of this office costs is in its internal cost and performance accounting. The Confederation does not publish it; only the expenditure per performance group is public.
None of these lines is shown here as zero francs. Missing and zero are two different statements.
Sources: the administrative unit from Band 2 of the federal accounts and the budget; positions, staff, IT and consultancy from «Bundesfinanzen – Institutionen»; subsidies from the Finance Administration's subsidy database.
- Band 2, SR2025, from PDF page 25
- Band 2, VA2027, from PDF page 23
- File «Institutionen» (institutionen_de.csv)
Source: Eidgenössische Finanzverwaltung EFV, retrieved 18.09.2026. Raw data
Source: Eidgenössische Finanzverwaltung EFV, retrieved 14.09.2026. Raw data
Not an official publication. The figures stand as the Federal Finance Administration publishes them; schwur.ch only rounds them.