Army Helmet Recall and Investigation Puts Spotlight on Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Posted 09/7/16
By Sarah Poppy Alexander
To say safety standards are crucial to the Army is simply to state the obvious. Service members rely on their equipment to function as intended in any number of life and death situations. The Department of Defense thus depends on its contractors to live up to exacting standards to prevent any kind of lapse that may endanger servicepersons. Unfortunately, contractors and subcontractors...
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