The O’Gara Group yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of the commercial armored vehicle division and transparent armor business of Britain’s BAE Systems, reuniting O’Gara with its original business.
O’Gara said it paid about $10 million to BAE for the vehicle armoring business, which is based in Ohio (Defense Daily, Oct. 17, 2012).
O’Gara has renamed the former BAE Systems Commercial Armored Vehicles LLC the O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company. The company said that the deal expands the capacity of its Mobile Systems Division, which designs, develops and manages the integration of highly engineered ballistic and blast systems to provide security vehicles with the highest level of protection to counter terrorism.
O’Gara also said the acquisition allows the company to offer a range of security solutions for its customers.
“We are uniquely prepared to meet current global security challenges because we have developed synergistic business lines,” Bill O’Gara, CEO of The O’Gara Group, said in a statement. “Specifically we have created O’Gara Training and Services, which provides security and counter-terrorism training both domestically and internationally and O’Gara Sensor Systems, which provides night vision gobbles, beacons and laser equipment to special operators, law enforcement and intelligence personnel globally. By expanding our Mobile Systems capabilities, we now offer a distinctive security package that fulfills many of the requirements for diplomatic security and low intensity conflict.”
O’Gara said that the Mobile Systems division is the only United States-based Discreet Security Vehicle provider with in-house transparent armor capabilities.