A couple of years ago I interviewed Murray Neal, CEO of Pinnacle Armor , about the company's Dragon Skin flexible armor . He reeled off a list of Dragon Skin's advantages over the current Interceptor armor: its high protection level, robustness, ability to take multiple hits, wearability. So why hadn't it been adopted?
"It the Not-Invented-Here syndrome and the Old Boy Network," he told me. "Some suppliers are preferred over others. The Pentagon are reluctant to buy from 'outsiders'."
The Pentagon is fighting one of its toughest battles: against an outsider who wants to supply US troops with superior body armor.
