Extremis' main business since startup has been making custom body armor for vehicles, mostly police cars, SUVs and some fire trucks. It also does a business in armored, lightweight helmets and shields ...

The Air Force has inked a contract for thousands of sets of body armor specifically designed to fit its female security forces airmen, and may start receiving the new armor as early as this fall. The ...

Armor Express offers structured armor for women with built in cups, and female carriers with 12 points of adjustment for an exact fit that won't flatten or smash delicate breast tissue. Plus with ...

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 ...

Senior Airman Kirsten Villalpando, 50th Security Forces Squadron response force member at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, checks an airman’s vehicle registration information during a routine ...

The Senate is pushing for the Pentagon to provide better combat equipment for female troops through a bipartisan effort known as the Female Body Armor Modernization Act. HERE'S WHO BIDEN COULD PICK TO ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Women are increasingly taking on new roles in the military including combat roles, and as they do, they're finding the gear that protects troops from whatever comes their way isn't ...

Senior Airman Kiah Cook, 377th Security Forces Group defender, wears the new female body armor on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Feb. 4. (Airman 1st Class Ireland Summers/Air Force) New body ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A bill to equip female members of the Department of Homeland Security with body armor better tailored to the female body proposed by U.S. Senator Gary Peters has successfully ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- Being a law enforcement officer can be dangerous, but what if you are hurt by something meant to help you? Zack Spencer showed us his latest creation -- body armor for women -- ...

Bipartisan bills to boost the availability of better-fitting body armor for female troops and require a report on preventable injuries attributed to bad fits are gaining support in both the House and ...

Many passersby raise their heads when walking past the Princess Olga monument in downtown Kyiv. Some even stop, gazing at the statue with surprise. Although it has been there for years, it seems the ...