Scott Burton
Scott Burton is the founder and chief editor of the BodyArmorNews.com website. In 2005 his keen interest in the body amor industry motivated Scott to create a platform where he could share and publish body armor related articles.
City Emergency Funds Could Buy Body Armor For Police
City Emergency Funds Could Purchase Ballistic Vests For Police
The Milwaukee Common Council’s Public Safety Committee is expected to consider legislation today that would authorize...
Soldiers In Iraq Will Get New Body Armor
A better body armor that was shelved last year is now making its way to soldiers in Iraq — but not Afghanistan.
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Counter Terror Expo 2011 – Conference Programmes Now Live
Conference Programmes Is Now Live
Counter Terror Expo 2011 taking place on the 19 – 20 April, Grand Hall, Olympia, London has today announced that...
Hardest Organic Material Ever Designed By Scientists
Tougher than steel and stronger than Kevlar, the new material could lead to a new class of cheap, ultra-light body armor.
Tougher than stainless steel...
International Acquisition For Protection In Afghanistan
International Acquisition For Protective Equipement In Afghanistan
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – (BodyArmorNews.com, November #, 2010) – EnGarde®, a leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality...
U.S. Army Orders Protective Plates
PHOENIX, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has ordered $8 million worth of enhanced small arms protective armor plates from BAE...
Politicians Too Big For Body Armour
Two Northern Ireland politicians have been forced to postpone a visit to Afghanistan because the Ministry of Defence does not have body armour big...
NJ Awards $3.5 Million To Law Enforcement Agencies For Bullet Resistant...
New Jersey Awards $3.5 Million To Law Enforcement Agencies For Body Armor
The Division of Criminal Justice is distributing $3.5 million to over 500 New...
DSM introduces Dyneema SB51
DSM launches Dyneema SB51
DSM Dyneema is expanding its already strong portfolio of products based on Dyneema, the world’s strongest fiber, with the first in...
Europe Targeted As Tenth Anniversary Of 9/11 Looms?
Europe Target As Tenth Anniversary Of 9/11 Approaches?
The question as to whether Europe is now seen as the soft-target battleground for militants, will likely...
Executive Pleads Guilty In UN Kickback Scheme
A former executive of a company that sells body armor and other protective gear pleaded guilty Thursday to bribing officials from the United Nations...
Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can’t Speak Afghan Languages
More than one quarter of the translators working alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan failed language proficiency exams but were sent onto the battlefield anyway,...
EXCLUSIVE: 1st Living Medal Of Honor Winner Since Vietnam Tells His...
America's first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War says the heroic actions he undertook in Afghanistan are as brave...
New York Body Armor Co. Founder Convicted Of Stock Scam
The founder of America's leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military was convicted Tuesday of charges that he ran a $185 million...
Air Force Buys Vision Body Armor
Point Blank Solutions Inc. will supply the U.S. Air Force with Vision body armor under a contract worth about $100,000.
The Florida concern said the...
Iowa Man To Receive First Non-Posthumous Medal Of Honor Since Vietnam
WASHINGTON — In the most dangerous valley of the most rugged corner of eastern Afghanistan, a small rifle team of airborne soldiers fell into...
Contractor With $100,000 Belt Buckle Is Found Guilty
A former military contractor who made bullet-resistant vests and other body armor used in Iraq and Afghanistan was convicted on Tuesday of fraudulently enriching...
Point Blank Armor For Detroit Police
Point Blank Vests For Detroit Police
Florida's Point Blank Armor Inc. said it will supply NIJ .06 compliant, Hi-Lite Level II body armor to the Detroit...
Aluminum ‘Nanometal’ Is strong As Steel
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've learned how make an aluminum alloy -- a mixture of aluminum and other elements...
2 Ex-Blackwater Contractors On Trial In Slayings
Two former defense contractors were fueled by alcohol and rage the night they killed two Afghan nationals and injured another on the streets of...
