Excellence is our Key

Falck Schmidt Defence Systems A/S is recognized as a key supplier and prime contractor within the Danish industry complex. Falck Schmidt Defence Systems, through its rich heritage in engineering and innovation, has a good reputation in supporting the Danish military with modern and sophisticated products.

FSDS cooperates with and drives technology through national and international based research and development centers like Risoe National Laboratory, the Technical University of Denmark as well as other universities in Denmark and abroad. The company's goal is to provide our worldwide customers modern, robust, and cost effective solutions.

We develop, manufacture, deliver and maintain, on a global basis, systems and solutions which are superior in performance, safety, and reliability. Through technology innovations, our customers are able to conduct their tasks better, more efficient and safer.

Our Mission

To be a World-Class provider of elevated assemblies/platforms for surveillance, reconnaissance and/or weapons systems. Primarily for land forces, secondarily for the sea.

To be among the top five companies in the world supplying add-on armor applications - including carbon-fiber composites with integrated armor.

To be among the top five in the world of carbon-fiber applications and parts suppliers - including carbon-fiber composites for armored vehicles and weapons systems.

Our Values

Innovation

• We encourage "out of the Box" thinking.
• We are leaders with new ideas and show the way.

Reliability - Trust

• We only deliver solutions that meet or exceed their reliability requirements.
• We employ the highest standards of ethics for our partners, colleagues, customers and suppliers.
• We stand up to our commitments.

Challenge

• We are not risk adverse to product challenges.
• We challenge the existing - we can do it even better.

Fun

• We believe that the business is very serious and is conducted with a conscious mind. We also believe that there must be room for fun, experimentation and maintaining good humor in our working environment producing a very good esprit-de-corps.

Our Strategy

Continued growth through:

• Worldwide partnerships with armed forces and other defence companies.
• Continuous development and nurture of core competencies, and outsourcing of non-core essential items:
  • Continuous co-operation with major universities
  • Continuous R&D projects
  • Continuous training of our staff
  • Preservation and protection of our IP's

A highly competent organization

FSDS is a trustworthy development partner with a highly skilled work force:

• Development tools: ProEngineer (incl. motion, vibration, shock, simulation, finite element, laminated materials, composites etc.)
• MRP - Microsoft Navision
• EN/ISO 9001:2008
• NATO AQAP 2110

Exhibitions and Memberships

FSDS is present at major exhibition world wide i.e. EUROSATORY/Paris, DSEI/London and AUSA/Washington DC.  We are member of the Defence and Aerospace Industries Association in Denmark (FAD). Headquarters are centrally located in Odense, Denmark. FSDS has a branch office in the USA.

History and background

The company E. Falck Schmidt A/S was founded in 1935 by Ejnar Sophus Falck Schmidt, as a family owned business. The company was in the blacksmith industry, developing and manufacturing rescue type vehicles for the Falck Group – a rescue company owned by the Falck family and founded by Sophus Falck, the father of Ejnar Sophus Falck Schmidt.

In the early 1960'es E. Falck Schmidt A/S entered into the defence industry working with overhaul and repair of tracked vehicles and components. Another part of the company’s business was related to manlifts: E. Falck Schmidt A/S soon was established as the world market leader on narrow high reach manlifts.

E. Falck Schmidt - Defence Systems Division evolved from the sixties into the 21st century into a company with a wide range of capabilities and sales, mainly within the NATO community. In early 2005 the company diversified. All defence related activities are now executed by Falck Schmidt Defence Systems A/S under the management of Jan Falck Schmidt, president and CEO.