Physical security for a site under threat, and the assessment that drives it
Force protection procurement starts from a threat and vulnerability assessment rather than from a product list. The assessment establishes what is being protected, against what kind of attack, and what level of protection is proportionate, and every subsequent specification -- perimeter, access control, vehicle barriers, blast protection, surveillance, guarding -- derives from it. Bids that lead with equipment rather than with a protective design are answering a question the buyer did not ask.
Physical protection products are tested and rated rather than described. Vehicle security barriers are rated by the mass and speed they will stop and the penetration permitted; fencing, doors and glazing are rated by delay time against defined tool sets or by blast resistance; and the rating only holds for the tested installation detail, so foundations and fixings are part of the specification. Layering is the design principle: detect, delay and respond must be balanced, because delay without a response capability inside that time buys nothing.
Operational constraints usually decide the design. Sites have to remain usable -- people, vehicles and deliveries must enter, sometimes in volume and sometimes in public view -- so screening throughput, queuing and standoff distance are engineering requirements rather than preferences. Where protection is installed at an existing site, construction happens under the threat the measures are meant to address, which constrains sequencing. Maintenance, testing and periodic reassessment as the threat changes are contractual commitments, since protective measures that are not exercised are not protective.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys force protection in United States?
GlobalGov holds 38 force protection records from 20 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Land and Maritime (9 records); DLA Land and Maritime (7 records); DLA Aviation (4 records); DLA Aviation at Oklahoma City, Ok (2 records); 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) (1 record); Acquisitions - Aqm Momentum (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 63% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| DLA Land and Maritime | 9 | 24% |
| DLA Land and Maritime | 7 | 18% |
| DLA Aviation | 4 | 11% |
| DLA Aviation at Oklahoma City, Ok | 2 | 5.3% |
| 262-Network Contract Office 22 (36C262) | 1 | 2.6% |
| Acquisitions - Aqm Momentum | 1 | 2.6% |
How long do bidders get to respond to force protection tenders in United States?
Across the 34 United States force protection notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 14 days. A quarter of them allowed 11 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 15. 17 of them (50%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.
How often are force protection tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 3 notices a month in this category, 36 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 37, spread across 9 separate months of activity since 17 November 2021. April is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 21 May 2026, 133 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
Where do the United States force protection records on this page come from?
These 38 records are collected from 2 official sources: SAM.gov (37), Grants.gov (1). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Open Force Protection tenders in United States
Showing 2 of the 2 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Less Lethal Specialty Impact/Chemical Munitions (LLSI CM) Request for Information
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