ADVANCE ARMOR SOLUTIONS

Combat Edge Tactical Consultancy has been attached to several brand Ballistic Protection Design and Development manufacturers in the US since 1998. CETCI has served as Professionals in Force Protection Equipment and other Ballistic Protection Equipment, conducting Testing & Evaluations as well as design and development for Product Delivery.

Body armor, also known as body armour, personal armor or armour, or a suit or coat of armor, is protective clothing designed to absorb or deflect physical attacks. Historically used to protect military personnel, today it is also used by various types of Law Enforcement Officers / Peace Officers (Riot Police in particular), private security guards, protective service detail operators, executive protection officers, private investigators, bodyguards, civil services, and occasionally ordinary civilians. 

There are two main types: 

• regular non-plated body armor for moderate to substantial protection.
• hard-plate reinforced body armor for maximum protection.

Ballistic protection levels are assigned based on the ammunition the body armor can stop, with higher levels capable of resisting stronger ammunition. 

Bulletproof armors can be categorized as: 

• Level IIA
• Level II
• Level IIIA
• Level III
• Level IV 

CETCI maintains products and solutions that are US-NIJ Certified Standard. We do this to maintain continuity of the highest standards in safety and protection for the end user. 

We only carry armor solutions with a NIJ Standard-0101.06 or higher.

NIJ STANDARD-0101.06

In 2018 or 2019, NIJ was expected to introduce the new NIJ Standard-0101.07. This new standard will completely replace the NIJ Standard-0101.06. The current system of using Roman numerals (II, IIIA, III, and IV) to indicate the level of threat will disappear and be replaced by a naming convention similar to the standard developed by UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch. 

NEW NIJ STANDARD-0101.07

HG (Hand Gun) is for soft armor and RF (Rifle) is for hard armor. Another important change is that the test-round velocity for conditioned armor will be the same as that for new armor during testing. For example, for NIJ Standard-0101.06 Level IIIA the .44 Magnum round is currently shot at 408 m/s for conditioned armor and at 436 m/s for new armor. For the NIJ Standard-0101.07, the velocity for both conditioned and new armor will be the same.