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Industry Expert Brings Proven Law Enforcement and Military Leadership to Position POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Point Blank Solutions, Inc. ("PBSI", OTC Pink Sheets: PBSO), a leader in the field of protective body armor, today announced that Dale Wise has joined the Company as vice president of research and development. Mr. Wise brings almost 30 years of domestic and international experience in training, design and new product development to his new position. Mr....

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Point Blank Solutions, Inc. ("PBSI", OTC Pink Sheets: PBSO.PK), a leader in the field of protective body armor, today announced that the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Contracting Center ("RDECOM") issued a Request for Proposal ("RFP"), extending the existing contract for Improved Outer Tactical Vests ("IOTVs"). On January 20th, in response to a letter received from RDECOM, the Company submitted its bid to...

ROCKFORD, Ill., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rock Island Contracting Center has awarded SupplyCore Inc., a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materiel and related supply chain management and logistics services, the Interceptor Body Armor (IBA) Warehouse Services Contract (W52P1J09C0006). Under this U.S. Army contract, SupplyCore, working with its partner, SupplyCore Middle East (SCME), will manage the Army's body armor warehouse in Kuwait; issuing,...

By Joe Napsha, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Jun. 17--Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it has developed a hardened steel armor that will do a better job of protecting military personnel and their equipment from armor-piercing rounds and explosions. It is the first high-hardened steel armor developed in the United States since the Vietnam War, according to the Downtown-based company. It uses steel melted at the company's Allegheny Ludlum mill in Brackenridge that is rolled...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army said on Friday U.S. soldiers can only use body armor provided by the Pentagon even though some have bought their own because they felt what the military provided was insufficient. "There is, obviously, sufficient body armor for every deployed service member," said Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman in outlining the new policy. Whitman said military leaders had decided to require soldiers to use Pentagon issue armor because they did...

BALTIMORE -- U.S. and Canadian skiers banging through the slalom gates at the Olympics are benefiting from new fluid armor technology that is also being looked to as a battlefield lifesaver. Slalom racing suits provided to the U.S. and Canadian Olympic teams by ski wear maker Spyder, for example, contain pads from the British firm, d3o, that contain a fluid that hardens when struck, said Spyder spokeswoman Laura Wisner. "It just feels like a foam pad, it's not gel, it's not goo, it's...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nine people, some of them U.S. Marines, have been arrested for stealing bulletproof vests intended for American troops in Iraq and trying to sell them to international arms merchants, Homeland Security officials said on Wednesday. Authorities said they had busted a group that stole ballistic vests, helmets and protective plates from the Camp Pendleton Marine base in San Diego, California, and sold them on the Internet. Several additional suspects are believed...

By Vicki Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops in Iraq are using body armor that strikes a balance of protecting them while allowing movement to do their jobs and withstand hot temperatures, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The Senate Armed Services Committee summoned defense officials to a closed briefing to explain a Pentagon report disclosed last week that said more complete body armor could have prevented or limited about 80 percent of the fatal torso wounds suffered by Marines...

By Will DunhamWASHINGTON -- Better body armor could have prevented or limited about 80 percent of fatal torso wounds suffered by Marines killed in Iraq, a report by U.S. military medical experts obtained on Friday said.The report, conducted for the Marine Corps by the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner and not released to the public, examined the cases of Marines fatally wounded from the start of the war in March 2003 through June 2005, and found weaknesses in the torso protective...