June 12 (UPI) --Gentex Corporation has received a $51 million contract to provide for more than 35,000 Enhanced Combat Helmets to the U.S. Marine Corps. The move is meant to standardize the helmet ...

Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded a $51 million contract to Gentex Corporation to provide the Enhanced Combat Helmet, or ECH, to every Marine. Since 2014, Marines have only been issued the ...

May 9 (UPI) --Gentex Corp. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for enhanced combat helmets and related data reports. The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense ...

But Ops-Core helmets may be a way off still. Gentex also makes the Enhanced Combat Helmet, which the Marine Corps picked as its new helmet for all Marines last year. It offers greater protection ...

Named the Enhanced Combat Helmet, or ECH, the helmets salient feature is the material ... BAE Systems Aerospace and Defense Group Inc., Mine Safety Appliances Co. and Gentex Corp. Ceradyne stated if ...

The Marine Corps has ordered more than 35,000 Enhanced Combat Helmets, which will be fielded ... said in the story. Gentex Corporation was awarded a $51 million contract to produce and deliver ...

Gentex is the same company involved in creating ... “The ECH is the helmet of the future Marine,” Maj. John Draper, the Enhanced Combat Helmet project officer said in the statement.

Gentex is responsible for a variety of specializedcombat ... that’s on deck to replace the the Army’s Enhanced Combat Helmet in inventories. But unlike the IHPS, the Ops-Core helmet comes ...

June 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gentex Corporation is pleased to announce ... with a broad range of commonly used ground combat helmets and is optimized for comfort and stability in a lightweight ...

the same as the design used for many of the Enhanced Combat Helmets, also made by Gentex. In March, soldiers with the Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division fielded the Army’s ...