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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The National Research Council will convene specialists in committee form to consider ...

Being able to move around comfortably in body armor is important for wearers to maximize their efficiency, whether in combat or other security or surveillance functions. DuPont, the originators of ...

During Phases I and II of the study, the committee was requested to consider the use of statistics to permit a more scientific determination of sample sizes to be used in body armor testing.