When you build vehicles as tough and tenacious at we do, you have to have the proper facilities and production capacity to do it right.

Ladson, South Carolina

Company Headquarters

Force Protection was originally located in the Charleston Naval Yard. It moved to its current facilities in November 2003, occupying the first 87,000 sq ft of space in a plant that had been used to produce General Electric turbine engines. The four radio-controlled, 30-ton cranes greatly facilitate the movement of heavy equipment and steel throughout the manufacturing process.


Force Protection now employs more than 1,000 people in its 400,000 square feet of administrative, manufacturing, test, and integration space in Ladson and has increased its vehicle production rate by more than 20x in 2007. Additional facilities in other locations are being added in order to continue to support the demand for our life saving products and technology.

Edgefield, South Carolina

Blast and Ballistic Testing

Force Protection acquired a Research and Developmental Testing Facility in Edgefield, SC. The Company will use the facilities to expand our research and development activities and support the verification and quality control validation of Force Protection's armored vehicles used to protect military personnel against explosive threats.

Summerville, South Carolina

Research and Development, Laboratory Testing & Training

Our 60,000 square foot Summerville facility is a separate and secure building housing research and laboratory testing of our armored vehicle technology in addition to pre-deployment training facilities for end-users of our products.

Kuwait

Total Life Cycle Support

The facility is designed to support the ongoing need to modernize, repair, service, supply, and conduct training for the fleet of vehicles deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. This facility greatly shortens response times for spare parts, fleet service, and will serve as a forward logistics station for staging and installation of upgrade kits such as the high-performance mobility independent suspension systems (ISS) for the Cougar® MRAP.


  • Over 1,000 employees
  • 900,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse space