Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division received the Army’s newest helmet today, the first combat helmet capable of withstanding small arms fire without added protection. The Next Generation ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 20, 2011) -- The results of a year-long study to build the best helmet to withstand blunt trauma were unveiled at a Pentagon press briefing April 19, 2011. Funded ...

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Revision Military, the world leader in integrated head systems, has been awarded the U.S. Army’s Advanced Combat Helmet Generation II (ACH GEN II) helmet contract ...

Army researchers and industry partners recently published a study showing how they developed new materials and manufacturing methods to create higher performing helmet padding that reduces the ...

Revision Military introduced ultra lightweight, premium composite helmet shells to its ground-breaking line of Batlskin head protection products: the ACH-shaped Batlskin Viper P2 and Revision designed ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Sept. 1, 2009) -- For the past year, almost 7,000 sensors mounted on helmets in Iraq and Afghanistan have been collecting data on blast trauma from improvised ...

Contractors sold the U.S. Army and Marine Corps thousands of ballistic helmets made by prison inmates containing numerous defects including "serious ballistic failures," according to a new Defense ...

Revision Military has been awarded a contract worth about $98 million to make the latest version of the Advanced Combat Helmet for the U.S. Army. The Newport, Vermont firm is slated to manufacture 293 ...

November 1, 2011: The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 150,000 NAPPs (nape protector pads) to protect the back of the neck from explosion fragments. The flexible pad, made of ballistic material (that ...

April 2, 2010: The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 120,000 new lightweight helmets (LWH), at a cost of about $234 each. While the LWH is 15 percent larger than the new army (ACH) helmet, it is still ...

Although soldiers have been wearing head protection since at least the 26th century BCE, the modern military helmet is a fully 20th century invention. And it's been a rapid evolution. Growing from its ...