Frank Kavanaugh, Chairman of Force Protection, Inc. (FRPT), presides over the Market Open

Thursday, January 18, 2007
at NASDAQ's MarketSite
in New York City.

Force Protection, Inc.
[FRPT]

Frank Kavanaugh, Chairman of Force Protection, Inc. (FRPT), will preside over the opening bell.

Force Protection, Inc. manufactures the world's best blast- and ballistic-protected vehicles, which are protected against improvised explosive devices, land mines, and hostile fire, at their facilities outside Charleston, S.C. The company's signature vehicles -- the Buffalo route clearance and Cougar troop carrier -- have logged more than 1.6 million hours of combat operations and withstood more than 2,000 improvised explosive device and mine attacks since 2003. Popular with troops who credit the vehicles with saving lives, the Buffalo and Cougar are used by all branches of the U.S. military.

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