ArmorWorks Earns $5.8M Body Armor Deal
Phoenix Business Journal
4/27/2004

A Tempe-based defense contractor has been awarded a $5.8 million Pentagon contract to supply extra armor for U.S. Marines serving in Iraq.

ArmorWorks will provide extra armor for protective vests worn by Marines. Scottsdale Congressman J.D. Hayworth announced the Defense Department award on Tuesday.

The hope is that the extra protection will help reduce causalities from small arms fire in the Iraqi theater.

The Pentagon has initiated several contracts of late to add armor plating to vehicles and convoys targeted by Iraqi insurgents, snipers and terrorists.