We just heard that the Army awarded their 57,000 plate carrier contract to KDH. We aren’t sure how the lighter, better performing options were discarded in favor of KDH’s package that uses vanilla IOTV armor panels. But, we guess it had something to do with the company being located in Johnstown, PA. That’s Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, home to Rep. John Murtha chairman of House Appropriations Committee’s Defense Subcommittee and one of the not-so-mysteriously best-funded little airports in the country. It’s going to be interesting to see how a small business that is already subcontracting out the work on their existing body armor contracts is going to pull this off.
KDH Awarded Army’s Plate Carrier Contract
