[doug from upland]

We don't sell glass. We do a complete risk assessment of buildings and make our recommendations for how to protect the envelope as well as how to improve security. What we do helps owners obtain terrorism insurance. Unfortunately, we don't just sell the film. We manufacture it, our installers install it, and we warrant it for 20 years.

For those who do not know, glass is what causes the most damage and death/injuries in bomb blasts. Terrorists love glass. In the Bali bombing, glass was broken 500 yards from the event. We had a building protected about a block and a half from the Murrah building. Buildings all around our client's building suffered significant interior damage when glass blew in the building. Our client did not lose a pane of glass.

Last year I made a presentation to the Los Angeles World Airports board of commissioners regarding the Ontario Airport, which is the airport from which I usually fly. If a 400-lb car bomb went off in their close short-term parking, a distance of 150 feet from the beautiful glass terminal, the kill and maiming zone inside the terminal would extend to about 200 feet inside that building. The counters are 50 feet away. We protect 350 airports around the world and the majority of American military bases in the European theatre.

The company began in London three decades ago to protect buildings from the IRA bombers. Amazingly, the Bishopsgate bomb in 1992, a massive 2000-lb truck bomb, dumped 500 tons of dangerous glass on the streets and damaged 72 buildings. We protected a building down the street from the blast and had virtually no interior damage.

[WFTR]

In the early 90's, I used to fly into Ontario occasionally to do support work for plants in Searles Valley. I used to love flying to Ontario and taking the drive through the desert to Ridgecrest.