Global Seating Systems

GSS designs and builds complete soldier survivability systems for military vehicles, but they also can inject advanced technologies into existing vehicles, making the bench seating, individual seating, and command and weapons positions more survivable and operationally effective. As a result, GSS is a partner in both the development of new military vehicles and in ensuring that older-generation systems can find a more effective life on the new battlefield. GSS technologies are the true force multiplier: for a small incremental cost component in the overall cost of an IFV, APC, MBT, or soft-skinned vehicle, the entire system can be made more effective, and with greater protection of personnel. This translates into overall cost savings and improvements in morale. GSS's R&D center, located just outside of Philadelphia PA and is situated in Exton, Pennsylvania. They work with teaming partners around the world to ensure that they can produce adaptive solutions to urgent combat challenges in the shortest-possible time. The company had a long history in civil vehicle seating developments before it entered the military market which had, until that time, viewed seating and restraint systems as an incidental part of the combat vehicle development. Recent asymmetric warfare history - and particularly the rising incidence of IED and rocket attacks on vehicles - and the demonstration by GSS it could effectively address the ramifications of blast by looking beyond the high-weight armor responses has shown that the "soldier survivability" systems which GSS produces are an integral part of battlefield success.