Body armor designed for men could be deadly when women use it because of a design flaw that can send bullets ricocheting off women’s chests and up into their throats.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is working on upgrades in body armor for female federal law enforcement officers. The Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center ...

The US military is developing “Xena: Warrior Princess”-style body armor for women that it hopes will give them greater protection on the battlefield, with more curves in the chest and hips. It ...

The US Army is preparing to test a new body armor tailored to fit female soldiers.

Texas A&M University School of Public Health researcher Andrea Porter has been testing more comfortable, better-fitting, safer, soft armor bulletproof vests for female officers for three years now.

Army equipment officials have recognized after a decade at war that women are built differently than men – especially when it comes to proper-fitting body armor.

Female troops are about 20 percent more likely than their male counterparts to report musculoskeletal disorders, and poorly fitting body armor could at least in part be a factor.

Giving women body armor designed for men also made them more vulnerable, military officials said, because it limited mobility and the Kevlar plates did not always cover the chest snugly.

The straps provided are special to the female vest and need to be placed correctly so they will pull the vest “in” around your chest. Hands down, the best part of the 4PV-FEM is the lack of darts.

Female soldiers in the U.S. Army have spent years fighting on modern battlefields with body armor designed for men. But the Army plans to change that poor-fitting scenario by field-testing new ...

The U.S. Air Force is ready to begin fielding body armor specifically designed for female airmen in Security Forces units.

Melissa Block speaks with Lynne Hennessey, a designer with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, about new body armor that has been developed to accommodate ...