August 2025: Company Facility Announcement
This month closes a chapter in Point One’s history as we completed our move out of our original training and headquarters facility located in the Taylor Farm area of Virginia Beach. We first moved into this facility back in December of 2013 and conducted all of our business and training there from January of 2014 through October of 2021 until relocating the headquarters, training and production facility to our current home on Crusader Circle in Virginia Beach. We continued to use Taylor Farm for training and exercise events and it became the first home for our new start up Optimus Arms in February of 2023 and then our acquisition of HEXMAG in January of 2024. Both of these companies thrived at the TF location as did Point One, but have now been relocated to our combined facility on Crusader Circle and on Holland Road to help us unify better our work, our people, and our facilities. The Taylor Farm office and training building served us very well over the years and we are grateful the building was available when we needed a new home all those years ago. The memories created there and the hard work achieved will forever be engrained into the minds of the owners and their team mates who all have worked so hard over the years to stand up and grow a successful business that has proudly trained and equipped the best military and law enforcement officers in the world. Check out the facility page of our website for more info about the main building (AKA The Fortress) and our other sites that support our training and product support missions.
May 2025: Point One ownership participates in the Annual EOD on the Hill Week Events.
Point One and HEXMAG leadership made the journey to our nations capitol this week to participate in the USBTA events and the evening session with Congress for the annual EOD on The Hill Caucus. P1 and HEXMAG leaders enjoyed the discussions regarding past training events and the public safety Bomb Tech and Military EOD communities path forward in 2025 and beyond. Thanks to all of the USBTA members and leaders who made this a great event and to the EOD Congressional Caucus for sharing so much important information and vision. Learn more about this event here.
April 2025: Point One Trains EXU-1
Point One trained personnel from EXU-1 in our Advanced Chemical Energetic Material Threats (ACEMT) Course of Instruction (COI) in Virginia. The training kicked off with a day of classroom instruction at our Virginia Beach headquarters, covering the chemistry and risks of homemade explosives (HME). Instructors and students transitioned to our explosive operations range, where they spent several days making various types of homemade explosives, safely conducting demolition operations, and performing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) exploitation and field identification-related technical tasks. The last day consisted of a series of practical scenarios, all designed to exercise their exploitation mission capabilities and reinforce the safest and most time-efficient procedures when operating in the Homemade Explosives (HME) arena. Point One’s ACEMT COI equips EOD teams to tackle evolving threats with confidence.
February – March 2025: Point One Trains Sweden’s Special Operations Group.
Point One training team just finished an 8-day training course focusing on CBRN for the Swedish military. The attendees of this course were a mix of EOD operators and Assaulters from the Swedish Special Operations Force. While the course focused on EOD specific skillsets, the assaulters that attended were very enthusiastic towards the training and actively participated in every portion of the course. Any experienced EOD tech will tell you that operating with a strike force in an EOD capacity differs greatly from operating in a more conventional EOD role. The consequences of a mistake in the SOF environment are potentially much more catastrophic. A CBRN threat, and the associated hazards, can complicate this even more. The focus of this course revolved around protecting the force against CBRN specific hazards during SOF operations. Classroom and practical instruction on Personal Protective Equipment, agent/material detection and field level identification created a solid knowledge foundation before moving into drills designed to exercise specific skillsets such as electronic diagnostics and manual access. As always, we brought everything together with Full Mission Profile (FMP) drills designed to test the Teams tactics and procedures to their limits. This course was a great success with all participants providing nothing but positive feedback. Train Hard – Fight Easy!
July 2024: Point One trains Belgian Special Operation Forces
IMNT/HME-Sustainment training is 10 days in length and consists of both classroom discussion and practical sustainment training. All classroom topics are followed by technical training events that reinforce classroom instruction and previously attended courses. The course was designed to provide an advanced level of instruction for EOD technicians supporting Special Operations missions. The course consists of practical instruction which included a review of EOD Threat Assessment, electronics training, access training, advanced electronic and advanced disruption training. All training is reinforced with practical drills.
The second week included a review of HME principles and production, followed by four days of advanced HME training to include primary and secondary work on the range. All processes and procedures are safely conducted with risk assessment and management in mind. Sustainment training is designed to incorporate as much hands on training as possible.
April 2024: Point One Trains EXU-1
Point One completed one of two scheduled Advanced Chemical Energetic Material Threats (ACEMT) Course of Instruction (COI) for personnel from EXU-1 at our Virginia training facilities. The training kicked off with a day of classroom instruction covering the chemistry and risks of Homemade Explosives (HME). Instructors and students transitioned to our explosive operations range, where they spent several days making various types of homemade explosives. All processes and procedures are safely conducted with risk assessment and management in mind. The course is designed to incorporate hands on training with HME to include demolition operations, explosive exploitation, testing and field identification-related technical tasks. The last day consisted of a series of practical scenarios; all designed to exercise their exploitation mission capabilities and reinforce the safest and most time-efficient procedures when operating in the Homemade Explosives (HME) arena. Point One’s ACEMT COI equips EOD teams to tackle evolving threats with confidence. All attending personnel enjoyed the course and had great comments on their end of course critiques.
January 2024: Point One Trains EOD Mobile Unit Eleven
Point One USA recently trained personnel from EODMU11. Personnel were trained in our EOD Operations Course – Conventional Energetic Material Threats (EODOC-CEMT) which was conducted at Point One’s desert training area in California. The training kicked off with a half a day of classroom instruction which started with Threat Assessment (TA) followed by explosive chemistry and risks of homemade explosives (HME). Instructors and students transitioned to our explosive operations lab and range, where they spent two and a half days making various types of homemade explosives. HME demolition operations were conducted on day two and three at the end of the day. Safety briefs were conducted each day on the range and then precursor awareness, field identification-related technical tasks, field tests and detonation of mixes takes place on steel witness plates to demonstrate the deformation approach of the metal and to provide visual characterization of the type of explosive. Post blast characteristics and analyzation was discussed after every detonation volley. This course is short, but it reinforces the safest and most time-efficient procedures when operating in the Homemade Explosives (HME) environment. Point One’s EODOC-CMET equips EOD Technicians with the basic tools needed to tackle evolving HME threats. The course was a big success, and all the students gave positive comments on their critiques.
June 2023: Point One is participating in the Trident Golf Classic benefiting SEAL Kids! More information on this event and SEAL Kids can be found here!
March 2022: Point One has been awarded the new Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal (JSEOD) Training contract at NAVSCOLEOD!
October 2022: Point One products can be purchased on GSA through Victor Forward and now Regulus Global as well. View all available products here!
March 2022: Public Safety Bomb Training (PSBT) is needed more than ever with the ever changing threats in the world. Read here how Point One can help your local bomb squad conquer all of your training needs!
October 29, 2021: Point One Fortress – Soft Opening. Point One cuts the ribbon on it’s new building located at Crusader Circle in Virginia Beach.
February 18, 2020: Point One finally received approval from the City of Virginia Beach to break ground and commence construction on our new, three story,15,000 sq/ft facility. Designed from the ground up to support Point One in our training, production and R&D efforts for the foreseeable future!
July 2019: New product! Point One has developed the Mine Countermeasures Exploitation and Stripping System (MCME&S). Read more here about the back story on MCM and how Point One can help fight against this threat with our new MCME&S System!