WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- The Army awarded a contract Tuesday for a helmet that weighs an average of 22 percent less than the one currently in use but provides just as much protection, ...

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division received the Army’s newest helmet today, the first combat helmet capable of withstanding small arms fire without added protection. The Next Generation ...

The Army has officially started fielding its newest combat helmet, the Next-Generation Integrated Head Protection System, to soldiers in close-combat formations, the service announced Tuesday.

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. The Army has come a ...

A Black soldier in action in the Pacific during World War II as seen in the exhibit “The Blue Helmets in Action,” which is on display at Houston’s Buffalo Soldiers National Museum through June 30.

Spc. Layne Alfieri dons an Integrated Visual Augmentation System 1.2 prototype. (Jason Amadi/U.S. Army) From cold weather gear to loitering munitions, Program Executive Office-Soldier, the center for ...

California-based defense technology company Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled EagleEye, an artificial intelligence-powered modular system designed to integrate command, control, and battlefield ...

(JTA) — A new website quietly launched by the Israeli military lets soldiers anonymously check whether their safety equipment complies with official standards, in a tacit admission both that donated ...

War has been part and parcel of humanity since the proverbial beginning of time, and people have clad themselves in protective gear and armor for thousands of years. Helmets worn in combat are not a ...

Sgt. 1st Class Tyler Sickles, left, demonstrates how to don the Modular Scalable Vest. The vest is one of several wearable gear items the Army is improving, developing or fielding to soldiers. (Jason ...

MANITOWOC, Wisconsin (WGBA) — The helmet worn by a Wisconsin man when he was killed during the Vietnam War is now back home. When Jeffrey Rupp died in 1969, his helmet never made its way back home.