Research and field experience show most body armor is still built around male body types, leaving female officers with ...

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 ...

Researchers used free-field C4 blasts and anatomically representative male and female manikins to test how unisex SAPI body ...

This chapter discusses the foundational basis for the current body armor testing methodologies as practiced by military and law enforcement agencies. In the 1970s developments in fiber technology and ...