Follow-On Order for Additional Cougar Vehicles

Force Protection, Inc, LADSON: Force Protection, Inc. today announced a follow-on order by the U.S. Marine Corps for 15 additional Cougar Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal Rapid Response Vehicles (JERRV). The order, which includes associated support items and services, is worth an estimated $9.3 million. 
 
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Force Protection a contract for 79 Cougar JERRVs in May. This marks the second delivery order made under the contract in less than two months. All vehicles will be manufactured and delivered to the government this calendar year. 
 
“The Joint IED Defeat Organization is funding these vehicles in a manner that leaves no question as to how urgently they are needed,” said Force Protection CEO Gordon McGilton. “We are responding in kind not only with this life-saving technology, but with the resources necessary to maintain the vehicles at the highest levels of performance.” 
 
Force Protection has placed more than 30 Field Service Representatives (FSRs) in the field to assist the armed forces in training and vehicle maintenance in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 
“We have a proven solution to counter IEDs in the Cougar JERRV,” said Vice President for Marine Corps Programs Wayne Phillips. “It is being fielded in greater numbers every day, and with the support system created by the deployment of our FSRs, troops will continue to have the resources that ensure optimal use of these vehicles.”  
 
Force Protection, Inc. manufactures ballistic- and mine-protected vehicles through its wholly owned subsidiary. These specialty vehicles are protected against landmines, hostile fire, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs, commonly referred to as roadside bombs). Force Protection's mine and ballistic protection technology is among the most advanced in the world. The vehicles are manufactured outside Charleston, S.C.