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    Advancements in body armor, biometrics to provide protection

    Advancements in body armor, biometrics to provide protection

    This is pretty cool. I like to see advancements for the poor infantry.

    Industry and government agencies are developing ways to keep warfighters better protected with lighter, more flexible body armor and improved sensors to detect health issues before they become a liability in the field.

    Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based research facility, announced in January that the Army fully funded an ongoing contract to develop new genetically modified spider silks for use in body armor. The contract — which was originally awarded in 2016 — is now worth over $1 million as the Army exercised an optional extension beginning in July 2017, said Jon Rice, Kraig Biocraft’s chief operating officer.


    The company has been developing a product known as Dragon Silk, which is 10 times more elastic and has about two-thirds the strength of conventional bulletproof materials, he said. The process uses genetically modified silkworms to create this toughened fiber, he added.


    During the base phase of the contract, “we took a very easy production mechanism, which is a silkworm, and then adapted that to produce a stronger, better silk,” Rice said. The company sent initial samples of individual fibers to the Army contracting office, and those samples are currently under review, he said.


    Now that the program is fully funded, Kraig has opened up expanded production facilities in Michigan, Rice said. Production previously occurred in South Bend, Indiana. The company is also bringing its research work back in house after previously contracting with the University of Notre Dame, he noted.


    “We now have onsite experts working to develop those new materials,” he said. “What that really does is allow us to move beyond what already existed.”


    The new fibers could help ease the burden of body armor for troops on the move, Rice said.
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    Lets get that body armor to be like, the body armor in the movie John Wick.
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    Hopefully the future brings full tactical dreadnought armor.

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