The U.S. Army‘s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center has tapped VICIS to enhance the blunt impact performance of combat helmets, the Seattle, Wash., company announced Tuesday. VICIS will explore applying its football helmet liner as a replacement for the foam liner pads currently used in Army and Marine Corps helmets. …
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Gentex has won a potential five-year, $51.4 million contract to provide 84,376 updated combat helmets and data reports to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps Systems Command received three proposals for the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract and obligated nearly $10 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds.to cover the first delivery order, the Defense …
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ArmorSource is scheduled to deliver combat helmets to the U.S. Army this spring after it concluded the first article testing on the protective equipment. The Lightweight Advanced Combat Helmet AS-505 is designed to protect the human body from back-face deformation and fragmentation and projectile threats, ArmorSource said Tuesday. ArmorSource CEO Yoav …
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