Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The war between Ukraine and Russia has highlighted the importance of body armor for soldiers, and the deadly consequences when it is lacking. Body armor is ...

The purpose of this overview is to provide a broad introduction to the nature of ceramic body armor plates and helmets as used by many U.S. servicemen and women; the medical basis for determining the ...

The Ceramic Armor on Patrol (CAP) System was designed for military and police forces to take advantage of the lighter-weight front and back ceramic plates in order to withstand both NIJ Level III and ...

Armor Holdings Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a $45.2 million contract modification to produce ceramic body armor plates for the U.S. Army, the company said July 5. The work will be done ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army, under pressure to issue more protective gear to its soldiers in Iraq, has signed a $70 million emergency contract with a California company to rush ceramic body armor to ...

BODY ARMOR: Ceradyne Inc. said April 21 that it has received an $8.5 million order to provide its ceramic body armor system to protect "certain elite U.S. military personnel." The order is scheduled ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Ceradyne Inc. shares rose 7.6% to $21.65 on Tuesday morning after the company said that it has received another $75.5 million of a U.S. Army contract worth up to $461 ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Ceradyne said it has received orders for its ceramic body armor systems worth a total of $17.2 million from government agencies. The Costa, Mesa, Calif., firm said it would begin ...

At your request, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies established a study committee to assess the methodologies used by the U.S. Army for the testing of body armor. What ...

Stow, Ohio – ShotStop® Ballistics Technologies, LLC (ShotStop), an innovative and leading manufacturer of patented and patent-pending advanced ballistic technologies, including, body armor, ballistic ...

WASHINGTON - Soldiers should be required to wear new ceramic body armor plates even though they add weight and may limit mobility, Army Secretary Francis Harvey said Wednesday. Drawn into an issue ...

A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed a technique for creating high-density ceramic materials that requires far lower temperatures than current techniques – and takes less ...