Jacquelyn Martin / AP Retailers and manufacturers of body armor are reporting increased sales that are due in part to new customers seeking added protection following the recent spate of mass ...

In the past two weeks, two different 18-year-olds on opposite sides of the country stormed into spaces once presumed to be safe and opened fire on unsuspecting innocents. While the mass shooting at a ...

A Marine with Task Force Southwest patrols near Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. Work being done to improve body armor options in counterinsurgency operations could lighten the patrol load. (Cpl. Roderick ...

Designing effective body armor involves several engineering and ergonomic challenges. The goal is to achieve maximum ballistic protection while ensuring the armor remains lightweight, flexible, and ...

Officers depend on their body armor on a daily basis. There is the inevitability, however, that the armor will one day no longer properly function. Here’s how three agencies chose their body armor.

Fielding better-fitting body armor for female and small-statured service members has long been on the Defense Department’s to-do list. Three years ago, female veterans in Congress introduced a bill to ...

When a man stepped into a Buffalo grocery store last Saturday with an AR-15-style rifle, the store’s security guard tried to stop the shooting by firing his own weapon back at the suspected shooter.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, July 13, 2007) - Soldiers are volunteering dramatic personal accounts of lives saved and injuries avoided thanks to the Army's body armor. Their first-hand ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Andrea Porter is stripping back the layers of bulletproof material as she researches ways to make body armor safer and more comfortable for women’s bodies. The Texas ...

Tactical body armor is largely unregulated across the country. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia testified on Capitol Hill this month that the recent ...