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ArmorWorks Receives Second Army Delivery Order for Side Armor; Tempe-based ArmorWorks to Provide Additional Enhanced Side Ballistic Inserts.


TEMPE, Ariz. -- ArmorWorks, a leading provider of advanced armor products, today announced the receipt of its second delivery order from the U.S. Army to provide Enhanced Side Ballistic Inserts (ESBI ESBI Enhanced-Side Ballistic Inserts
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). This order is pursuant to the company's ongoing $543 million ID/IQ ID/IQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
ID/IQ Indefinite Duration/Indefinite Quantity
 contract with the U.S. Army on which the company previously announced commencement of fulfillment ahead of schedule.

"We are pleased to be able to provide our troops with this vital protection," said Bill Perciballi, president and founder of ArmorWorks. "We feel this follow-on delivery order is in response to our demonstrated ability to deliver early on the contract and to assure expanded supply of key ceramics and other ballistic components."

ArmorWorks is also currently fulfilling U.S. Department of Defense contracts for advanced armor including Enhanced Small Arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms


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 Protective Inserts (ESAPI ESAPI Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (bulletproof vests)
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), vehicle armor and aircraft armor.

About ArmorWorks

ArmorWorks, founded in 1996, provides cutting-edge armor technology and products to military and enforcement agencies worldwide. ArmorWorks designs and produces advanced armor using high-tech ceramics and proprietary composite materials composite material or composite, any material made from at least two discrete substances, such as concrete. Many materials are produced as composites, such as the fiberglass-reinforced plastics used for automobile bodies and boat hulls, but the  to provide enhanced ballistic protection. For more information, visit www.armorworks.com.
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