TECHNICAL EXHIBIT 3 Uniformed Guards Equipment Requirements.pdf

TECHNICAL EXHIBIT 3

A. Uniformed Guards Equipment Requirements for Each Person

1. Flashlight and flashlight holder

2. Nylon duty pouch (latex & search gloves, medical pouch)

3. Whistle

4. Valid state driver’s license

B. Uniformed Guards Optional Equipment for Each Person (BODY ARMOR

PROTECTION)

1. Body armor is an item of personal protective equipment that provides protection against specific ballistic threats within its coverage area. Body armor must meet current National Institute of Justice (NIJ) standards (i.e., NIJ Standard 0108.01).

This standard does not apply to helmet systems, eye protection systems, or other transparent armor systems worn on the body.

2. Body armor saves lives. According to industry estimates, more than 1,200 police officers in the United States have been saved from death or serious injury because they were wearing their armor. This figure includes lives saved and serious injury avoided from assaults and accidents as well as from ballistic threats.

3. Soft Armor. Soft armor refers to types consisting of multiple plies of ballistic fibers either woven or nonwoven. Soft armors are designed to defeat relatively low energy (less than 1,000 ft·lb) soft or blunt projectiles including steel fragments and lead handgun projectiles.

4. Hard Armor. Hard armor refers to types including fiber-reinforced plastics

(FRPs), metals (for example, aluminum, titanium, and steel), ceramics (for example, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, and boron carbide), and composites of these various types of materials.

5. Insert. A removable or non-removable unit of ballistic material that can enhance the ballistic performance of the armor panel in a localized area but not over the entire area intended for ballistic protection. Some inserts are known as trauma packs, trauma plates, or trauma inserts, but other forms of inserts are possible.

6. Inserts, Plate. Hard armor plates or semi-rigid plates are intended to be inserted into pockets of flexible vests and jackets to provide increased protection, particularly to provide protection against rifle threats.

7. Service Life. Unless otherwise stated, soft armor systems shall have a minimum service life of five years of continuous use in all types of typical field use if not impacted by ballistic projectiles and 15 years including intermittent storage periods ranging from one month to five years, maximum duration. The system must be cleaned before intermittent storage period. Due to the nature of most hard armor plates accurate estimates of service life during continuous field use are not readily available. Steps should be taken to ensure the longest service life possible.

E. MINIMUM PROTECTION STANDARDS (LEVEL IIIA/LEVEL IV)

1. The approved standard for the Ashore enterprise is a Level IIIA system capable of accepting ESAPI and/or a Level IV system. Level IIIA body armor provides the highest level of protection available in concealable body armor and provides protection from high velocity 9mm and .44 Magnum rounds of ammunition.

Level IIIA armor is suitable for routine wear in many situations; however, security force units located in hot, humid climates should continually and carefully monitor their Level IIIA body armor systems for any signs of performance degradation. Level IV armor protects against high powered rifle rounds and is clearly intended for use only in tactical situations when the threat warrants such protection.

2. The ballistic threat posed by a bullet depends, among other things, on its composition, shape, caliber, mass, angle of incidence, and impact velocity.

Because of the wide variety of bullets and cartridges available in a given caliber and because of the existence of hand-loaded ammunition, armors that will defeat a standard test bullet may not defeat other loadings in the same caliber.

3. For example, an armor that prevents complete penetration by a .40 Smith and

Wesson (S&W) test bullet may or may not defeat a .40 S&W bullet with higher velocity. In general, an armor that defeats a given lead bullet may not resist complete penetration by other bullets of the same caliber of different construction or configuration. The test ammunition specified in this standard represents general, common threats to law enforcement officers.

4. Level IIIA (High Velocity 9mm; .44 Magnum)

a. This armor protects against 9mm Full Metal Jacketed Round Nose (FMJ RN) bullets, with nominal masses of 8.0 grams (g) (124 grain (gr)) impacting at a minimum velocity of 427 meters per second (m/s) (1400 feet per second (ft/s)) or less, and .44 Magnum Semi-Jacketed Hollow Point (SJHP) bullets, with nominal masses of 15.6 g (240 gr) impacting at a minimum velocity of 427 m/s (1400 ft/s) or less. It also provides protection against most handgun threats.

Provides multiple-hit protection against .44 Magnum lead Semi-Wad Cutter gas checked bullets and 9mm FMJ bullets.